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GOODLY COMPANY 


A Book of Quotations and Proverbs 
for Character Development 


By 

JESSIE E. LOGAN 

Librarian, Spades Parti Branch Library 
Indianapolis, Indiana 


# With Introductions hy 

CARRIE E. SCOTT 

Director Children s Work, Indianapolis Public Library 
and 

CLARA W. NIEMAN 

Teacher Director, Indianapolis Public Schools 



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Copyright 1930, by 
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Foreword 


This is a collection of gems of thought culled from the 
works of masters of literature, ancient and modern. It has 
grown, page by page, from material collected in response 
to requests that have come to a busy librarian for quota¬ 
tions to be used as illustrative material in the various ac¬ 
tivities and projects connected with the work of schools— 
something to help the selfish child see the beauty of un¬ 
selfishness; the disobedient child appreciate the law of 
obedience; lines on courtesy for the blackboard motto; 
a slogan on thrift for thrift week; book rhymes for book 
week; and all such calls that come for all the weeks the 
schools celebrate. 

Quotations have been selected from many sources and 
arranged by subjects. In the work of selection, the needs 
of the child have been kept in mind. Only those quotations 
have been chosen that are expressed in words the child of 
average ability can understand. 

Since one of the chief objectives in education is charac¬ 
ter building, every opportunity should be given the child to 
develop along lines that will lay the best foundation for 
future success. These truths, expressed in clear and beau¬ 
tiful language, may aid his moral and spiritual develop¬ 
ment, and thus bring him happiness and contentment. A 
mind stored with apt quotations and proverbs that have 
definite meanings which are comprehended and memorized 
during an impressionable period, when beauty, truth and 
rhythm have a strong appeal, may aid the child in later 
years to feel the right, know the right and do the right. 

Carrie E. Scott, 

Director Children’s Work, 
Indianapolis Public Library 


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Contents 


PAGE 

Ambition .11 

Art.15 

Books and Reading.17 

Bravery.23 

Charity. 26 

Cheerfulness . . 29 

Cleanliness.33 

Courage.35 

Courtesy.40 

Diligence.42 

Duty.44 

Education.49 

Faith.56 

Forgiveness.61 

Friendship.65 

Generosity.73 

Gratitude.76 

Greatness.78 

Habit.84 

Happiness.87 

Helpfulness.. . . 94 

Heroism.97 

Honesty.99 

Honor. & .104 

Humility.108 

Industry.112 

Justice.116 


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CONTENTS 


Kindness . 
Loyalty 

Manners . . . 

Music . . 

Nobleness . . 

Obedience . . 

Opportunity . 
Patience . . . 

Patriotism . . 

Peace . . . . 

Perseverance 
Politeness . . 

Promptness . 
Rules of Conduct 
Self-Control . . 

Service . . . 

Success . . . 

Sympathy . . 

Thankfulness 
Thrift . . . . 

Trust . . . . 

Truth . . . . 

Usefulness . . 

Work . . . . 


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Introduction 

In accordance with one of its ultimate objectives, modern 
progressive education is giving marked attention to the 
training of boys and girls in establishing habits of indus¬ 
try, cleanliness, truthfulness, honesty, punctuality, kind¬ 
ness, courtesy, respect for the rights of others, and other 
desirable qualities of a civic and moral nature. In other 
words, the schools are attempting in a serious and com¬ 
mendable way to do their part in character building. Wit¬ 
ness to this end the school program, as it provides directly 
for such training through the civics lessons and club meet¬ 
ings, assembly periods, special day programs, traffic work 
and opening exercises, as well as indirectly through the 
regular lessons in arithmetic, geography, history, etc. 

In her efforts to mold the ethical code and influence the 
conduct of her pupils, the conscientious teacher is con¬ 
stantly on the lookout for material that will help. She 
realizes that songs which touch the heart, beautiful pictures 
which stir the emotions, and bits of poetry that appeal to 
both mind and heart do play a part in ennobling charac¬ 
ter, and she strives unceasingly to “set the stage” in her 
classroom accordingly. 

To this end I feel that teachers will find Miss Logan’s 
compilation of quotations stimulating and helpful. It cov¬ 
ers thoroughly and adequately the long range of civic and 
moral virtues, as well as providing for some of the special 
days observed in the schools. The simple alphabetical 
arrangement will appeal to both teachers and pupils. The 
quotations themselves have been selected with care and 
consideration as to their suitability in meeting the needs 
and falling within the mental grasp of intermediate and 

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upper grade children. Another happy feature is the great 
number of quotations and bits of poetry under most of the 
various headings or subjects. This gives rich opportunity 
for many children to take part in a program devoted to 
any one central thought, and also provides for the recog¬ 
nition of individual differences among those taking part. 

The busy yet conscientious teacher may wish to place 
on her blackboard an apt quotation, or several lines of 
verse, to quicken the minds and hearts of her pupils to 
higher levels of perseverance. The planning of the open¬ 
ing exercise period for a certain day and on a specified 
topic may have been assigned to a committee of pupils 
working under the supervision of the teacher. Perhaps the 
room wants to share in the auditorium exercises on Book 
Week, or to contribute to the success of the Christmas 
program of the entire school. It may be that the civics 
class wishes to use the theme of patriotism for the next 
club meeting, or it may be that the club desires to take 
charge of the Music Day program. In all such cases Miss 
Logan’s book would help materially. 

Other examples of the possible use of the book could 
be cited, but this hardly seems necessary or advisable. 
The earnest teacher of today, in her zeal and with her 
initiative, will find many ways of using the material. I 
am confident that the boys and girls will enjoy using it. 
May it be of real benefit to them in their efforts to be¬ 
come men and women of whom their respective com r 
munities may be justly proud. 

Clara W. Nieman, A.B., 

Teacher Director , 

Indianapolis Public Schools 


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Goodly Company 


SOURCES CONSULTED 

Bartlett —Familiar Quotations 

Semis —Patriotic Reader 

Christy —Maxims and Phrases 

Douglas —World’s Best Proverbs 

Edwards —Dictionary of Thoughts 

Hoyt —Cyclopedia of Quotations 

Lawson —World’s Best Proverbs and Maxims 

McFadden —Proverbs 

Sindelar —Morning Exercises for All the Year 
Wiggin —Golden Numbers 

Character Education—Public Schools, Bedford, Indiana 


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oAmbition 

What is ambition but desire of greatness? 

And what is greatness but extent of power? 

—Higgins 

We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by 
doing well; and when that care is once taken, not to be 
over anxious about success. —Rochester 

Ambition can creep as well as soar. —Burke 

Ambition is the soldier’s virtue. —Shakespeare 

Blind ambition quite mistakes her road. —Young 
Black ambition stains a public cause. —Pope 

Proud ambition is but a beggar. —Newton 

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy. 

By jumping at the stars you may fall in the mud. 

Climb not too high lest the fall be the greater. . 

He who would rise in the world should veil his ambition 
with the forms of humanity. —Chinese 

Better little talent and much purpose, than much talent 
and little purpose. 

Desire nothing that would bring disgrace. 

Better aim at a star than shoot down a well; you’ll hit 
higher. 

Earth’s worst tempters are gold and ambition. 

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He who would climb the ladder must begin at the 
bottom. 

Hasty climbers have sudden falls. 

Hitch your wagon to a star. —Emerson 

If we never build our castles in the air 
We shall never build them anywhere. 

—Lawson 

If you don’t aim high, you will never hit high. 

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must 
climb with care and confidence. —Andersen 

No wind can do him good who steers for no port. 

One’s character will never rise higher than his aims. 

Those who climb high often have a fall. —Danish 

Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. 

Where you cannot climb over you must creep under. 

Who never climbed never fell. 

Without a purpose what were life? 

Eating, sleeping, toil and strife. 

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. 

—Johnson 

All may have, if they dare try, a glorious life or grave. 

—Herbert 

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so, who 
would greatly win. —Byron 


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AMBITION 


When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its 
progress is boundless. — Seneca 

Ambition is life hunger; it obeys no law but its ap¬ 
petite. — Shaw 

Ambition is like a circle in the water. 

Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 

Till by broad spreading it disperses to nought. 

—Shakespeare 

The height of my ambition is only to find my place, 
though it were but a sweeper of chimneys. — Dickens 

Ambition has no rest. — Bulwer-Lytton 

Such joy ambition finds. — Milton 

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. 

—Syrus 

Most people would succeed in small things if they 
were not troubled with great ambitions. — Longfellow 

Better to strive and climb, 

And never reach the goal, 

Than to drift along with time, 

An aimless, worthless soul. 

—Sangster 

A life without a purpose is a ship without a rudder. 

All men desire three things: honor, riches, pleasure. 

A spur in the head is worth two in the heels. 

Ambition is a powerful source of good or ill. 

—Young 


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The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one. 

May hope to achieve it before life be done; 

But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, 

Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows 
A harvest of barren regrets. — Meredith 

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire 
to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased 
thyself, there thou abidest. — Quails 

To take a soldier without ambition is to pull off his 
spurs. — Bacon 

No man is born without ambitions, worldly desires. 

—Carlyle 

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. 

—Emerson 

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 

—Eliot 

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. 

—Young 

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of noble¬ 
ness proceeds. — English 

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap 
that so much misery is produced in the world. 

—/. K. Cobbett 

Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with 
destiny. — Mitchell 

There is no fir tree so small it does not expect to be¬ 
come a cedar. — German 


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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil 
imitates his master. —Dante 

Art is art though unsuccessful. —Danish 

He that sips many arts drinks none. 

It is a poor art that maintains the artisan. 

—Italian 

The perfection of art is to conceal art. 

—Quintilian 

Art is the perfection of nature. —Browne 

Art hath an enemy called ignorance. —Jonson 

There are two kinds of artists in the world: those that 
work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be 
silent if they would; and those that speak from a con¬ 
scientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty 
that has awakened their own admiration. —Green 

Art is the effort of man to man to express the ideas 
which nature suggests to him of a power above nature. 

— Bulwer-Lytton 

Artists may produce excellent designs, but they will 
avail little, unless the taste of the public is sufficiently 
cultivated to appreciate them. —Mason 

In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, 

To make some good, but others to exceed. 

—Pericles 

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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or 
science. — H azlitt 

The learned understand the reason of the art, the un¬ 
learned feel the pleasure. — Quintilian 

Every artist was first an amateur. — Emerson 

A picture is a poem without words. — Horace 

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His 
glory. — Longfellow 

Around the mighty master came 

The marvels which his pencil wrought, 

Those miracles of power whose fame 

Is wide as human thought. — Whittier 

All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s 
work, not his own. — Ruskin 

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul 
talking to another. — Ruskin 

The highest triumph of art is the truest presentation 
of nature. — Willis 

The mission of art is to represent nature; not to imi¬ 
tate her. — Hunt 

Art and hope are twin brothers and they die together. 

— Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 

Art and knowledge bring bread and honor. 

—Danish 

Art holds fast when all else is lost. — German 

Art is power. — Longfellow 


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i Books and Reading 

People are not usually better than the books they read. 

Judge not a book by its cover. 

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is 
that of a good book. —Colton 

Reading a poor book is an opportunity lost of reading 
a good one. 

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 
and some few to be chewed and digested. —Bacon 

Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you what you are. 

There is no worse robber than a bad book. 

—Italian 

Those who eat most are not always fattest; those who 
read most are not always wisest. 

’Tis not how much but how well we read. 

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of think¬ 
ing, and an art of writing. —Disraeli 

That is a good book which is opened with expectation 
and closed with profit. —Alcott 

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; 
when adversity threatens, they are inseparable com¬ 
forters. —Aungerville 

There is no past, so long as books shall live! 

— Bulwer-Lytton 


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If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach 
other hearts. —Carlyle 

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been, 
it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. 
They are the chosen possession of men. —Carlyle 

The true university of these days is a collection of 
books. —Carlyle 

We prize books, and they prize them most who are 
themselves wise. —Emerson 

He is a happy man who enjoys his books, and to whom 
the day does not seem long enough for reading. 

Books are friends who never quarrel, never complain, 
are never false, who come from far ages and old lands 
and talk with us when we wish to hear them, and are 
silent when we are weary. 

Good books take us away from small vexations into a 
serene atmosphere of thought, nobleness, truth. 

No book that will not improve by repeated readings 
deserves to be read at all. —Carlyle 

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful 
than a book. 

A book that remains shut is but a block. 

A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and 
forever. —Tupper 

A good book is the best companion. 

A habit all should cultivate. 

Is to read and ruminate. 

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BOOKS AND READING 


A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for 
the mind as well as for the body. — Ossoli 

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. 

—Greek 

A man may usually be known by the books he reads 
as well as by the company he keeps. — Smiles 

Be careful what you read. 

Books are the best things, well used; abused, among 
the worst. — Emerson 

Books cannot always please, however good; 

Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

—Crabbe 

Books should to one of these four ends conduce, 

For wisdom, piety, delight or use. — Denham 

Choose an author as you would a friend. 

—Earl of Roscommon 

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, 
a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an ef¬ 
fectual comforter. — Barrow 

Books are yours, 

Within whose silent chambers treasure lies 
Preserved from age to age; more precious far 
Than that accumulated stor$ of gold 
And orient gems which for a day of need, 

The sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. , 

These hoards of truth you can unlock at will. 

—Wordsworth 


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In reading as in eating, an appetite is half the feast. 

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. 

—Lang 

Books are men of higher stature, 

And the only man that speaks aloud for future times 
to hear. — Mrs . Browning 

A true book is an inspiration. — Everett 

A book may be as great a thing as a battle. 

—Disraeli 

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us 
more and more as we grow older. — Lichtenberg 

I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleas¬ 
ure also, from the books which have made me think the 
most. — Hare 

In the best books great men talk to us, give us their 
most precious thoughts, and pour their souls unto ours. 

—Channing 

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company 
you keep, for your habits and character will be as much 
influenced by the former as the latter. — Hood 

Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen. 

—Fuller 

Men must read for aijmsement as well as for knowl¬ 
edge. — Beecher 

We should accustom the mind to keep the best com¬ 
pany by introducing it only to the best books. 

—Smith 


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BOOKS AND READING 


It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse 
with superior minds, and these invaluable means of com¬ 
munication are in the reach of all. In the best books, 
great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, 
and pour their souls into ours. — Charming 

There is no frigate like a book 
To take us lands away, 

Nor any coursers like a page 
Of prancing poetry. 

—Dickinson 

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books 
under his roof. — Channing 

Thought is the seed of action. — Emerson 

A wise man will select his books, for he would not 
wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. 
Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best 
books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished 
as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted 
with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and 
laid aside, but not forgotten. — Langford 

The love of books is a love which requires neither jus¬ 
tification, apology, nor defense. — Langford 

A book is a friend that never deceives. — Bernard 

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will 
find what is needful for you in a book. 

—Macdonald 

A small number of choice books are sufficient. 

—Voltaire 


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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from 
the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have 
passed. —Temple 

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover 
of books is the richest and the happiest of the children 
of men. -—Langford 

Something is learned every time a book is opened. 

—Chinese 

The fountain of wisdom flows through books. 

—Greek 

Here’s an adventure! what awaits 
. Beyond these closed, mysterious gates? 

Whom shall I meet, where shall I go? 

Beyond the lovely land I know? 

Above the sky, across the sea? 

What shall I learn and feel and be? 

Open, strange doors, to good or ill! 

I hold my breath a moment still 
Before the magic of your look. 

What will you do to me, 0 Book? 

—Libraries 


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bravery 

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close 
to truth. —Aristotle 

Fortune favors the brave. —Terrence 

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. 

—Smith 

A brave man may fall but cannot yield. 

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative. —Sidney 

A brave man may yield to a braver man. 

Brave men are brave from the very first. 

—Corneille 

Tis late before the brave dispair. —Thomson 

Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. 

—Pascal 

The bravest men are subject most to chance. 

—Dryden 

Brave men do not boast or bluster; 

Deeds, not words, speak for such. 

—Revaiol 

Who bravely dare must sometimes risk a fall. 

—Smollett 

The brave love mercy, and delight to save. —Gay 

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should 
be a man of great soul. —Cicero 


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There’s a brave fellow! There’s a man of pluck; 

A man who’s not afraid to say his say, 

Though a whole town’s against him. — Longfellow 

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, 
through his iron, through his blood. — Arndt 

The truly brave, 

When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, 

Are touched with a desire to shield and save. 

—Byron 

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil. 

—Cicero 

The brave man seeks not popular applause. 

—Dryden 

0 friends, be men; so act that none may feel 
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. 

—Homer 

True bravery is shown by performing without witness 
what one might be capable of doing before all the world. 

—La Rochefoucauld 

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave 
who can endure a wretched life. — Martial 

Some have been thought brave because they were 
afraid to run away. 

No exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. 

—Dryden 

The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring. 

The best hearts are ever the bravest. — Sterne 

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BRAVERY 


The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the 
timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. 

—Tacitus 


Tis more brave 
To live, than to die. 


— Bulwer-Lytton 


The brave find a home in every land. 
God himself favors the brave. 


—Ovid 
—Ovid 


Bravery never goes out of fashion. — Thackeray 

Dare to be brave in the cause of the right, 

Dare with the enemy ever to fight. 

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, but he 
whose noble soul subdues his fear, and bravely dares the 
danger nature shrinks from. — Baillie 

[See also Courage , Heroism , Patriotism .] 


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Charity 

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. 

—Addison 

In charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man 
come in danger by it. — Bacon 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or 
a tinkling cymbal. — The Bible 

He is truly great who hath a great charity. 

—Thomas a Kempis 

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove moun¬ 
tains, and have not charity, I am nothing. — The Bible 

Charity well directed should begin at home. 

—Montluc 

Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not, 
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 

—The Bible 

Charity shall cover a multitude of sins. — The Bible 

Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the 
greatest of these is charity. — The Bible 

In faith and hope the world will disagree, 

But all mankind’s concern is charity. — Pope 

Charity itself fulfills the law, 

And who can sever love from charity? 

—Shakespeare 


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CHARITY 


Charity . . . renders good for bad, blessings for curses. 

—Shakespeare 

Live to do good and you will never tire of your em¬ 
ployment. 

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. 

—Mann 

A beggar through the world am I, 

From place to place I wander by; 

Fill up my pilgrim’s scrip for me, 

For Christ’s sweet sake and charity. 

—Lowell 

Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in 
whatever office, business and employment a person is en¬ 
gaged in. — Swedenborg 

A charitable man is the true lover of God. 

Charity begins at home yet should not end there. 

—Greek 

Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor. 

—German 

From him that would borrow of thee turn not thou 
away. — The Bible 

He most lives who lives for others. 

He that does good to another, does good to himself. 

—Seneca 

He that has no charity deserves no mercy. 

The highest charity is charity towards the uncharitable. 

—Buckminster 


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Be charitable and indulgent to every one but yourself. 

—Joubert 

What we frankly give, forever is our own. 

—Granville 

They serve God well who serve His creatures. 

—Norton 

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. — Hugo 

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what 
thy right hand doeth. — The Bible 

Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it 
toucheth. — Erasmus 

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only 
through what we refuse. — Swetchine 

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us 
above ourselves. — Child 

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere. 

—V inet 

The charities that soothe and heal and bless, lie scat¬ 
tered at the feet of men like flowers. — Wordsworth 

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; 
he who does one should never remember it. 

—Charron 

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quick¬ 
ly and without hesitation. — Seneca 


[See also Generosity .] 

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Cheerfulness 

A cheerful temper joined with innocence, will make 
beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good- 
natured. —Addison 

Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, 
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. 

—Goldsmith 

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast. —Herbert 

It is good to lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 

—Lowell 

Cheerful company shortens the miles. —German 

Cheerfulness and good will make labor light. 

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom. 

He who sings frightens away his ills. —Cervantes 

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; 

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 

Thy fate is the common fate of all; 

Into each life some rain must fall, 

Some days must be dark and dreary. 

—Longfellow 

Keep a smile on your lips: it is better 
To joyfully, hopefully try 
For the end you would gain than to fetter 
Your life with a moan and a sigh. 

—Waterman 


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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and wisdom. 

—Bovee 

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. 

—The Bible 

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. 

—The Bible 

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. 

—The Bible 

Nature designed us to be of good cheer. — Jerrold 

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. — Thackeray 

A light heart lives long. — Shakespeare 

A merry heart goes all the day, 

A sad tires in a mile. 

—Shakespeare 

Cheerfulness is health. — Haliburton 

Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, 
and the absence of it is certainly a vice. — Aughey 

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exer¬ 
cise and our minds at ease. — Steele 

The cheerful live longest in years. — Bovee 

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should 
always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Bulwer-Lytton 

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfor¬ 
tunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. 

—Lowell 


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CHEERFULNESS 


Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether 
past calculation its powers of endurance. — Carlyle 

A cheerful temper spreads like the dawn, and all vapors 
disperse before it. — Porter 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. 

—Addison 

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work!— Carlyle 

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness. 

—Montaigne 

The cheerful man will do more in the same time, will 
do it better, will persevere in it longer, than the sad or 
sullen. — Carlyle 

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in 
strong health, as color to his cheek. — Ruskin 

Be cheerful always. There is no path but will be easier 
traveled, no load but will be lighter, no shadow on heart 
and brain but will lift sooner for a person of determined 
cheerfulness. — Willitts 

The soul that always overflows with kindness and sym¬ 
pathy will always be cheerful. — Godwin 

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have ful¬ 
filled that of being cheerful and pleasant. — Buxton 

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. 

—Ovid 

There is no greater everyday virtue than cheerfulness. 

—Carlyle 


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To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheer¬ 
fulness of wisdom. —Emerson 

Every time a man smiles, and much more when he 
laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. 

—Sterne 

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the 
cloud and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, 
rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help 
you over many hard places. —Willits 

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like 
a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; 
and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world 
either a palace or a prison. —Lubbock 

God is glorified not by our groans, but by our thanks¬ 
givings; and all good thought and good action claim a 
natural alliance with good cheer. —Whipple 


[See also Happiness.~\ 


Cleanliness 

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity 
of mind. — Addison 

Cleanliness is next to godliness. — Wesley 

Cleanliness is the key to prayer. Arabian 

Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from 
a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. 

—Bacon 

All will come out in the washing. — Cervantes 

God loveth the clean. — The Koran 

Let the mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy 
body, thy clothes, and thy habitation. — Herbert 

The consciousness of clean linen is, in and of itself, a 
source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean 
conscience. — Phelps 

From the body’s purity the mind receives a secret sym¬ 
pathetic aid. — Thomson 

Virtue never dwelt long with filth. — Rumford 

Cleanliness may be recommended as a mark of polite¬ 
ness. — Addison 

You look at me, I look at you. 

You see my face, I see yours, too; 

And so it is well to keep them clean— 

They are so plainly to be seen. 

—Cleanliness Journal 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it 
extends even to his moral character. —Rumford 

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness pre¬ 
serves it. —Addison 

Self respect thrives on soap and water. 

—Cleanliness Journal 

Honor thy neighborhood and keep it clean. 

—Cleanliness Journal 



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Courage 

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately 
summit to the tempest’s shock. — Dante 

Courage conquers all things; it even gives strength to 
the body. — Ovid 


It is in great dangers that we see great courage. 

—Regnard 


Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. 

—Seneca 


We fail! 

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, 

And we’ll not fail. — Shakespeare 

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of 
high character. — Froude 


Most men have more courage than even they themselves 
think they have. — Greville 


The man who has never been in danger cannot answer 
for his courage. — La Rochefoucauld 

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every 
day surmount a fear. — Emerson 

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than 
anything else. — Niebiehr 

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without 
truth there can be no other virtue. — Scott 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


To bear other people’s afflictions, every one has courage 
enough to spare. — Franklin 

Be courageous, be independent, only remember where 
the true courage and independence come from.— Brooks 

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend 
loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. 

—Cervantes 

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but be¬ 
ing resolutely minded in a just cause. — Plutarch 

A gallant man needs no drums to rouse him. 

A man of courage never wants weapons. 

Courage in war is safer than cowardice. — Hindoo 

Beasts and birds of prey 

To the last gasp defend their brood. — Massinger 

Courage is the armed sentinel that guards liberty, inno¬ 
cence and right. — Baldwin 

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. 

Man has the addition of courage and virtue to defend 
his rights. — Civilis 

The courage of the soldier is found to be the cheapest 
and most common quality of human nature. — Gibbon 

A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm. 

Boldly ventured is half won. — German 

Dare to do right; fear to do wrong. 

Do what you ought, come what may.— French , Italian 
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COURAGE 

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for 
your pains; 

Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains. 

—Hill 

Good courage breaks ill luck to pieces. 

There is a courage which grows out of fear. 

True courage dares to do right. 

True courage grapples with misfortune. — Tacitus 

There is a great difference between a due regard to 
valor and a contempt of life. — Cato 

True valor knows as well how to suffer as to act. 

Valor would cease to be a virtue if there were no 
injustice. 

To bear is to conquer our fate. — Campbell 

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death. — Seneca 

Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. 

—Marston 

Courage mounteth with occasion. — Shakespeare 
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. — Disraeli 
The first mark of valor is defence. — Sidney 

Whatever enlarges hope will exalt courage.— Johnson 
Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 

By fearing to attempt. — Shakespeare 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


A man of courage is also full of faith. — Cicero 

The burden which is well borne becomes light.— Ovid 

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good 
weapons. — Cervantes 

True courage is like a kite, a contrary wind raises it 
higher. — Petit-Senn 

True courage is cool and calm. — Shaftesbury 

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness. 

—Chapin 

Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows. 

—Dryden 

If a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. 

—Clarke 

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler 
origin than physical courage. — Goodrich 

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. 

—Confucius 

True courage is the result of reasoning. — Collier 

A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want 
of a little courage. — Smith 

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune, but not in spirit. 

—Hugo 

Courage in danger is half the battle. — Plautus 

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. 

—Emerson 


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COURAGE 


If you are about to strive for your life, take with you a 
stout heart and a clean conscience, and trust the rest to 
God. — Cooper 

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage. 

—Emerson 

I dare do all that may become a man; 

Who dares do more is none. — Shakespeare 

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but 
in seeing it and conquering it. — Richter 

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as 
they really are. — Hare 

This is the feeling that gives a man a true courage—the 
feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense 
of duty. — Kingsley 

Courage, conduct and perseverance conquer all before 
them. 

No exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. 

—Dryden 

[See also Bravery , Heroism , Patriotism .] 


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Courtesy 

Do all the good you can 
To all the people you can 
In all the ways you can 
Just as long as ever you can. 

In all the affairs of human life, social as well as politi¬ 
cal, I have remarked that courtesies of a small and trivial 
character are the ones that strike deepest to the grateful 
and appreciating heart. —Clay 

Perform a good deed, speak a kind word, give a pleas¬ 
ant smile, and you will receive the same in return. 

A little child may have a gentle voice 
And pleasant tongue 
For everyone. 

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater en¬ 
noble it. —Bovee 

Courtesy is a duty public servants owe to the humblest 
members of the public. — Bulwer-Lytton 

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough 
for courtesy. —Emerson 

Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue. 

Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long. 

—French 

He may freely receive courtesies who knows how to 
requite them. 


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COURTESY 

In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than too little. 

All doors open to courtesy. 

He that asketh a courtesy promiseth a kindness. 

Be gentle and loving, 

Be kind and polite, 

Be thoughtful of others, 

Be sure to do right. 

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, 

Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy !—Fields 

You will find your value increased by courtesy. 

Use courtesy in all dealings. 

Even the discourteous like to be shown courtesy. 

Smooth away life’s difficulties by being courteous. 

Courtesy is a business asset, a gain and never a loss. , 

The ill-timed word we might have kept, 

Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? 

The word we had not sense to say, 

Who knows how grandly it had rung? 

[See also Manners, Politeness, Rules of Conduct .] 


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Diligence 

Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of 
prudence. — Lavater 

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. 

—Johnson 

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey’s 
end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. 

—U Estrange 

One to-day is worth two to-morrows; never leave that 
till to-morrow which you can do to-day. — Franklin 

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all 
things are accomplished by diligence and labor. 

—Menander 

*In all departments of activity, to have one thing to do, 
and then to do it, is the secret of success. 

Difficulties give way to diligence. 

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. — Cervantes 

Diligence is the mother of success. — Cervantes 

Employ thy time well, and since thou are not sure of 
a minute, throw not away an hour. — Franklin 

Diligence is the mother of good luck. — Franklin 

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. 

Hope in the Lord, but exert yourself. — Russian 

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DILIGENCE 


None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. 

—Franklin 

Make hay while the sun shines. — German 

Seest thou a man diligent in business? He shall stand 
before the king. — The Bible 

The hand of the diligent maketh rich. — The Bible 

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. 

—The Bible 

What we hope ever to do with ease, we may learn first 
to do with diligence. — Johnson 

It is want of diligence rather than want of means that 
causes most failures. — Mercier 

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust 
before brightness. — Plato 

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; and 
the mechanic that would perfect his work, must first 
sharpen his tools. — Confucius 

To be rich be diligent. — Davenant 

[See also Industry , Perseverance , Work .] 


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Duty 

Though your duty may be hard, 

Look not on it as an ill; 

If it be an honest task, 

Do it with an honest will. — Sheridan 


Do the duty that is best, 

Leave unto the Lord the rest. 

—Longfellow 


Duty before pleasure. 


God helps those that do their duty. 


I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; 

I woke, and found that life was Duty.— Hooper 


New occasions teach new duties. — Lowell 


The path of duty is the path of safety. 

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because 
it is our duty. — St. Augustine 

He who’s false to present duty breaks a thread in the 
loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten 
its cause. — Beecher 


The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. 

—Eliot 


So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man. 

When duty whispers low, “ thou must” 
The youth replies, ‘7 can” 


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—Emerson 


DUTY 


The things which must be, must be for the best; 

God helps us do our duty and not shrink 
And trust His mercy humbly for the rest. 

—Meredith 

Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; 
Duty is the path that all may tread. — Morris 

Thy sum of duty let two words contain, 

(Oh, may they graven in thy heart remain!) 

Be humble and be just. — Prior 

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that 
faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we under¬ 
stand it. — Lincoln 

God never imposes a duty without giving the time to 
do it. — Ruskin 

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. 

—Smiles 

There is no moment without some duty. — Addison 

None should expect to prosper who go out of the way 
of duty. — Aughey 

Duty only frowns when you flee from it—follow it, and 
it smiles upon you. 

— Elizabeth , Queen of Roumania 

Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into 
the way of danger. — Hill 

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; 
thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. 

—Thomas a Kempis 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


There is no evil which we cannot face or fly from but 
the consciousness of duty disregarded. —Webster 

Straight is the line of duty. —McCall 

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if 
you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that 
is no reason for not doing it. —Gladden 

Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which 
your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the conse¬ 
quence to God. —Haydon 

Scorn to shirk a duty. 

Do to-day’s duty, fight to-day’s temptation, and do not 
weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things 
which you cannot see, and could not understand if you 
saw them. —Kingsley 

Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and 
thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, 
and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is 
known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it. 

—Aughey 

And I read the moral—A brave endeavour 
To do thy duty, whate’er its worth, 

Is better than life with love forever. 

And love is the sweetest thing on earth. 

—Roche 

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of 
goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then 
that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last 
is itself another form of duty. —Ruskin 

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DUTY 


If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble 
them by doing them in a noble spirit. —Robertson 

Do what conscience says is right; 

Do what reason says is best; 

Do with all your mind and might; 

Do your duty and be blest. 

Dare to do right, dare to be true, 

For you have a work no other can do; 

Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well, 

Angels will hasten the story to tell. 

—W ilson 

Be a man! 

Bear thine own burden, never think to thrust 

Thy fate upon another. —Browning 

The boys and girls who do their best, 

Their best will better grow; 

But those who slight their daily task. 

They let the better go. 

Do whate’er you have to do 
With a true and earnest zeal; 

Bend your sinews to the task; 

Put your shoulders to the wheels. 

Duty is the demand of the hour. —Goethe 

Simple duty hath no place for fear. —Whittier 

Man cannot choose his duties. —Eliot 

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of 
force. —Joubert 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Duty is carrying on promptly and faithfully the af¬ 
fairs now before you. — Goethe 

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. — Goethe 

God always has an angel of help for those who are 
willing to do their duty. — Cuyler 

Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of 
cheerf ulness. — T aber 

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple 
duty. — Trumbull 

When the soul resolves to perform every duty, im¬ 
mediately it is conscious of the presence of God. 

;—Bacon 

If I am faithful to the duties of the present, God will 
provide for the future. — Bedell 

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen; in the 
market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just 
as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some 
great battle and knew that victory for mankind depend¬ 
ed on our bravery, strength and skill. — Parker 

The best preparation for the future is the present well 
seen to, the last duty well done. — Macdonald 

The duty of man is plain and simple, and consists 
but of two points: his duty to God, which every man 
must feel; and his duty to his neighbor, to do as he would 
be done by. — Paine 

Our business is not to see what lies dimly in the dis¬ 
tance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle 

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Education 

Tis hard to educate a frivolous girl or a vicious boy. 

—Hoss 

Learning by study must be won. —Gay 

Learning is better than house and land. —Disraeli 

Learning makes a man fit company for himself, 

—Young 

Learning is wealth. 

Live to learn and you will learn to live. 

—Portuguese 

No man so ignorant but may teach us something. 

Schools are workhouses, not playhouses. 

Sluggards are never great scholars. 

That teacher helps his pupils most who most helps 
them to help themselves. 

The foundation of every state is its education of its 
youth. —Diogenes 

There is no royal road to learning. 

There is not much to a man who is not wiser to-day than 
yesterday. —Lincoln 

There is no wealth like unto knowledge, for thieves 
cannot steal it. 

To be ignorant is not such shame as to be unwilling 
to learn. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular 
education, without which neither justice nor freedom can 
be permanently maintained. —Garfield 

We are never too old to learn. 

Youth is the time to learn. 

Culture is “To know the best that has been said and 
thought in the world.” —Arnold 

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every 
word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends 
toward the formation of character. —Ballou 

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to 
drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. 

—Brougham 

A boy is better unborn than untaught. —Plato 

A gem unwrought is a useless thing, so a man un¬ 
learned is a senseless being. —Chinese 

Acquire not only learning but the habit of learning. 

A good education is the best dowry. 

A little learning is a dangerous thing. —Pope 

Always be willing to learn. 

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than 
a well-educated family. —Scott 

A man in this world without learning is as a beast in 
the field. —Hitopadesa 

Better an empty purse than an empty head. 

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EDUCATION 

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes 
him. 

Education is capital invested for the future. 

Education is the chief defence of nations. 

—Burke 

Even to rebuild the temple the schools must not be 
closed. —The Talmud 

Good instruction is better than riches. —Penn 

He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge. 

—The Talmud 

Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not. 

—The Bible 

He that refuses instruction despises his own soul. 

—The Bible 

He that inquires much learns much. 

He who creates a desire to learn in a child, does more 
than he who forces it to learn much. 

How empty learning and how vain is art, 

But as it mends the life and guides the heart. 

—Young 

If a man empties his purse into his head no man can 
take it from him. —Franklin 

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and ap¬ 
plication. —Felton 

Learn all you can here, and God will teach you the 
rest in heaven. 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


What greater or better gift can we offer the republic 
than to teach and instruct our youth? — Cicero 

It was in making education not only common to all, 
but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of 
the free republic of America was practically settled. 

—Lowell 

Education is the only interest worthy the deep control¬ 
ling anxiety of the thoughtful man. — Phillips 

Every man must educate himself. His books and teach¬ 
er are but helps; the work is his. — Webster 

The best and most important part of every man’s edu¬ 
cation is that which he gives himself. — Gibbon • 

There are many things which we can afford to forget 
which it is yet well to learn. — Holmes 

Each excellent thing, once well learned, serves for a 
measure of all other knowledge. — Sidney 

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an inter¬ 
est to the rich man. — Mann 

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a stand¬ 
ing army. — Everett 

The aim of education should be to teach us rather 
how to think than what to think, rather to improve our 
minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than 
to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. 

—Beattie 

Upon the education of the people of this country the 
fate of this country depends. — Disraeli 

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EDUCATION 


A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human 
being till he is educated. — Mann 

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is 
to the human soul. — Addison 

An investment in knowledge always pays the best in¬ 
terest. — Franklin 

Planting colleges and filling them with studious young 
men and women is planting seed corn for the world. 

—Judson 

We all have two educations, one from others, and an¬ 
other, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. 

—Randolph 

Education is a companion which no misfortune can de¬ 
press. — Vaile 

Education is the leading human minds and souls to 
what is right and best, and to making what is best out 
of them. — Ruskin 

All who have meditated on the art of governing man¬ 
kind have been convinced that the fate of empires de¬ 
pends on the education of youth. — Aristotle 

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends 
only with life. — Robertson 

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of 
oneself. — Beecher 

A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of 
every faculty, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply 
it to all practical purposes. — Beecher 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


The poorest education that teaches self-control, is bet¬ 
ter than the best that neglects it. 

The worst education that teaches self-denial is better 
than the best that teaches everything else and not that. 

—Sterling 

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowl¬ 
edge, not in ignorance. — Curtis 

Education is a debt due from the present to future 
generations. — Peabody 

The education of the human mind commences in the 
cradle. — Cogan 

The true object of education should be to train one 
to think clearly and act rightly. — Van Dyke 

Early instruction in truth will best keep out error. 

—Edwards 

It depends on education to open the gates which lead 
to virtue or to vice, to happiness or to misery. 

—Porter 

The true order of learning should be, first, what is 
necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is 
ornamental. —Sigourney 

The wisest man may always learn something from the 
humblest peasant. — Petit-Senn 

It is on the sound education of the people that the se¬ 
curity and destiny of every nation chiefly rest. 

—Kossuth 


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EDUCATION 


Education is not learning; it is the exercise and de¬ 
velopment of the powers of the mind; and the two great 
methods by which this end may be accomplished are in 
the halls of learning, or in the conflicts of life. 

—Princeton Review 

Public instruction should be the first object of gov¬ 
ernment. —Napoleon 

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady only, 
but to be a man, a woman. —Spencer 

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if on brass, 
time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble 
into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, and 
imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God 
and love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets 
something that will brighten to all eternity. 

—Webster 


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Faith 

Faithfulness in little things fits one for heroism when 
the great trials come. — Alcott 

Faith is the force of life. — Tolstoi 

Faith is necessary to victory. — Hazlitt 

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. 

—Macdonald 

The principal part of faith is patience. 

—Macdonald 

This is faith: it is nothing more than obedience. 

—Voltaire 

It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one 
is first a hero in faith. — Jacobi 

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live 
by faith. — Henry 

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. 

—Whittier 

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that 
faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we under¬ 
stand it. *— Lincoln 

Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God’s treas¬ 
ures. — Stephens 

Faith is necessary to explain anything. 

—Wordsworth 


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FAITH 


Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting 
from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and 
only faith can do it. — Holland 

Without faith a man can do nothing. — Amiel 

Were it not for an unquestioning faith, human progress 
would be an intolerable burden. — Aughey 

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward 
of this faith is to see what we believe. — St. Augustine 

Faith, like light, should ever be simple and unbending. 

—Luther 

As a weak limb grows stronger by exercise, so will your 
faith be strengthened by the very efforts you make in 
stretching it out toward things unseen. — Aughey 

A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the 
foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. 

—Feltham 

Belief is the rudder by which life’s ship is steered. 

Faith bridges chasms with a rainbow. 

Faith flourishes in solitude. — Disraeli 

Faith never stands around with its hands in its pockets. 

The man who believes is the man who achieves. 

Who doesn’t keep faith in God, won’t keep it with men. 

—Dutch 

He distrusts his own faith who often swears. 

—Italian 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

To revive your faith is more difficult than to create it. 

—Disraeli 

Pin not your faith on another’s sleeve. 

He can who believes he can. — Latin 

To think we are able is to be so. — Smiles 

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence 
of things not seen. — The Bible 

Be thou faithful unto death. — The Bible 

It is always right that a man should be able to render 
a reason for the faith that is within him. — Smith 

Faith is an outward and visible sign of an inward and 
spiritual grace. — Book of Common Prayer 

If faith produce no works, I see 
That faith is not a living tree. 

—More 

Faith and unfaith can ne’er be equal powers; 

Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. 

—Tennyson 

Faith is power. The great workmen of history have 
been men who believed like giants. — Parkhurst 

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith 
in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts 
is weak. — Clarke 

Remove faith between man and man, and society and 
commerce fall to pieces. — Guthrie 


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FAITH 


Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through 
want of faith. — Heraclitus 

There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith. 

—Guthrie 

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. 

—-Munger 

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies 
of the future. — Collyer 

Liberty cannot govern without faith. 

—De Tacquerville 

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every 
trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. 

—Cecil 

Faith is the root of all good works; a root that produces 
nothing is dead. — Wilson 

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good 
works. — Whately 

Faith and works are like the light and heat of a candle; 
they cannot be separated. — Beaumont 

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Be¬ 
lief is power. — Robertson 

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; 
though she may hop about on earth, she will never fly to 
heaven. — Beaumont 

Faith is the pencil of the soul that pictures heavenly 
things. — Burbridge 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall 
be saved; believe, and your needs will be satisfied; be¬ 
lieve, and you cannot but be comforted and happy. 

—Taylor 

Faith is a higher faculty than reason. —Bailey 

Faith is like love; it cannot be forced. 

—Schopenhauer 

What I admire in Columbus is not his having dis¬ 
covered a world, but his having gone to search for it on 
the faith of an opinion. . —Turgot 

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind and leave the 
luggage of good works behind. —Dryden 

We walk by faith, not by sight. —The Bible 

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. 

—Young 

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands 
obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. 

—Brooks 


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Forgiveness 

Forgive thyself nothing and others much. —German 

Be quick to forgive and slow to anger. 

Goodness still delighteth to forgive. —Burns 

He that forgives gains the victory. —Yoruba 

I am loath to think the man is living, 

That feels not better for forgiving. 

The brave only know how to forgive. —Sterne 

A coward never forgave; it is not his nature. 

—Savage 

Forgiving is not forgetting. 

Forgive any sooner than thyself. 

Forgive others often, yourself never. —Syr us 

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, 

But they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong. 

—Dryden 

Good to forgive; 

Best to forget. —Browning 

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we 
do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. 

—Cosmus 


His heart was as great as the world, but there was no 
room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. —Emerson 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offences 
to grant it to others. — Horace 

The offender never pardons. — Herbert 

The fairest action of our human life 
Is scorning to revenge an injury; 

For who forgives without a further strife. 

His adversary’s heart to him doth tie: 

And ’tis a firmer conquest, truly said. 

To win the heart than overthrow the head. 

—Carew 

To err is human, to forgive, divine. — Pope 

Forgiveness is better than revenge. — Pittacus 

To love is human; it is also human to forgive. 

—Planters 

It is manlike to punish, but godlike to forgive. 

—Von Winter 

The more we know, the better we forgive. 

— Mme. de Stdel 

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over 
which he must pass himself; for every man has need to 
be forgiven. — Herbert 

If those who’ve wronged us own their faults and kindly 
pity pray. 

When shall we listen and forgive? To-day, my friend, 
to-day. 

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. 

—Bailey 


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FORGIVENESS 


Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that tres¬ 
pass against us. — The Bible 

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to 
be faultless oneself. — Sand 

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when 
it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. 

—Chapin 

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. 

—Shaw 

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we 
love them all the more. — Jameson 

The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of for¬ 
giving. — Rowe 

If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly 
Father will also forgive you. — The Bible 

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted 
one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — Lavater 

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for for¬ 
giveness or else forgiving another. — Richter 

A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled nqje, torn in 
two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against 
the man. — Beecher 

Forgiveness is the most necessary and proper work of 
every man; for though, when I do a just thing, or a 
charitable, or a wise, Another man may do it for me, yet 
no man can forgive my enemy but myself. — Herbert 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


It is right that man should love those who have offended 
him. —Aurelius 

The heart has always the pardoning power. 

—Swetchine 

The wise man will make haste to forgive, because he 
knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass 
away in unnecessary pain. —Rambler 

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most re¬ 
fined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can ar¬ 
rive at. —Sterne 

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is required that he 
forgive. —Johnson 

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. 

—Ausonius 


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Friendship 

To preserve a friend three things are required: to 
honor him present, praise him absent, and assist him in 
his necessity. —Italian 

Without a friend the world is a wilderness. 

There is no living without friends. —Portuguese 

The only way to have a friend is to be one. 

—Emerson 

So live with thy friend that if he become thine enemy 
he can do thee no harm. —Tully 

Our best friends are they who tell us our faults and 
help us to mend them. 

On the choice of friends, 

Our good or evil name depends. —Gay 

Not all are friends who smile on you. 

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure 
of his friends till he is unhappy. 

My friend is he who helps me in time of need. 

—German 

It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to 
be deceived by them. —French 

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; 

In time of adversity not one amongst twenty. 

He who has riches has friends. —Hitopadesa 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and 
who is not. — Spanish 

Fortune makes friends, misfortune tries them. 

Familiar paths and old friends are the best. 

—German 


Beware of a reconciled friend. 


Faith in friendship is the noblest part. 

—Earl of Orrery 

No friendship can excuse a sin. — La Bruy ere 

To friendship every burden is light. — Gay 

Friendship is the shadow of evening, which strength¬ 
ens with the setting sun of life. — La Fontaine 

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this 
world as a real friend. Such a one, as it were, another 
self. — Pit pay 

A day for toil, an hour for sport, 

But for a friend is life too short. 

—Emerson 

Know this, that he that is a friend of himself is a 
friend to all men. — Seneca 


He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a 
beggar by the bargain. — Fuller 

Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Coleridge 

Friendship requires deeds. — Richter 

Friendship buys friendship. — Emerson 

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FRIENDSHIP 


Admonish your friends in private, praise them in 
public. —Syrus 

Friendship is infinitely better than knowledge. 

—Cicero 

Friendship is love with understanding. —German 

Friendship is the perfection of love. 

Friendship, the older it grows the stronger it is. 

Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs. 

True friendship is a plant of slow growth. 

—Washington 

A false friend and a shadow attend only when the 
sun shines. —Franklin 

A friend in need is a friend indeed. 

A friend is the first one to come in when all the world 
goes out. 

A friend loveth at all times. —The Bible 

A good friend is better than silver and gold. 

—Dutch 

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers. 

A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. 

An open foe may prove a curse, 

But a pretended friend is worse. —Gay 

To desire the same things, and to reject the same 
things, constitutes true friendship. —Sallust 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the more pre¬ 
cious boon to man. — Disraeli 

Have no friends not equal to yourself. 

—Confucius 

Friendship has a power 

To soothe afflictions in her darkest hour. 

—White 

True friendship is like sound health—the value of it is 
seldom known until it be lost. — Colton 

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and noth¬ 
ing more gladdens the heart of man. — Plutarch 

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, 
continue firm and constant. — Socrates 

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are 
willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love. 

—Peloubet 

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning 
the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. 

—Cicero 

We only need to be true to others as we are to our¬ 
selves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. 

—Thoreau 

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by 
the doubling of our joy and the division of our grief. 

—Cicero 

Of friends, however humble, scorn not one. 

—Wordsworth 


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FRIENDSHIP 


The friendship between me and you I will not compare 
to a chain; for that rains might rust, or the falling tree 
might break. — Bancroft 

Be friendly and you will never want friends. 

Make friends of the wise. — Stobaues 

The greatest medicine is a true friend. — Temple 

A true friend is forever a friend. — Macdonald 

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. 

—Thackeray 

A man dies as often as he loses a friend. — Bacon 

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 

—French 

A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find. 

—Plutarch 

Keep thy friends under thy own life’s key. 

—Shakespeare 

Friendship is stronger than kindred. — Syrus 

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. 

—La Fontaine 

Make yourself necessary to somebody. — Emerson 

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; every¬ 
thing is straightforward, and springs from the heart. 

—Cicero 

The highest friendship must always lead us to the high¬ 
est pleasure. — Fielding 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. 

—Roux 

A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest 
of trials. —Taylor 

Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful. —Giles 

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship. 

—Budgell 

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends 
are a sure refuge. —Aristotle 

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he passes 
through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should 
keep his friendships in constant repair. —Johnson 

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than 
in prosperity. —Chilo 

The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple 
them to thy soul with hoops of steel. 

—Shakespeare 

He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and 
would aid us in our great work. —Channing 

A friend that you have to buy won’t be worth what 
you pay for him, no matter what that may be. * 

—Prentice 

Better an open enemy than a false friend. —Danish 

It is a common saying, that many pecks of salt must 
be eaten before the duties of friendship can be dis¬ 
charged. —Cicero 


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FRIENDSHIP 

There is nothing more friendly than a friend in need. 

—Plautus 

Life has no blessings like a prudent friend. 

—Euripides 

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. 

—Syrus 

While I keep my senses, I shall prefer nothing to a 
pleasant friend. — Horace 

A friend must not be injured, even in jest. — Syrus 

Pure friendship begins with liking or gratitude, roots 
that can be pulled up. — Eliot 

Life is to be fortified by many friendships; 

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of 
existence. — Smith 

So, if I live or die to serve my friend, 

’Tis for my love, ’tis for friendship alone, 

And not for any rate that friendship bears 
In heaven or on earth. — Eliot 

Friendship is Love, without its flowers or veil. 

—Hare 

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our 
friends. — De Lille 

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior 
intellect can never taste. 

Friends are those relations that one makes for one’s 
self. — Dischanyss 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot for¬ 
give each other’s little failings. —La Bruy ere 

When you find one good and true, 

Change not the old friend for the new. 

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to 
give, such will cease to love. —Fuller 

He that doth a base thing in zeal for his friend burns 
the golden thread that ties their hearts together. 

—Taylor 

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may 
heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be 
repaired. —Southey 

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my 
friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for 
him. —Sidney 




Generosity 

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gath¬ 
ered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. 

—Saadi 

The essence of generosity is self-sacrifice. 

—T ay lor 

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary 
as those imposed upon us by the law. — Goldsmith 

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to 
stop. — Pliny 

It is good to be unselfish and generous. — Eliot 

He that gives all, though little, gives much. 

—Quarles 

There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else. 

—Spurgeon 

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because 
God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the qual¬ 
ity of the givers. — Quarles 

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves 
not others, lives unblest. — Howe 

A man there was, and they called him mad; the more 
he gave, the more he had. — Bunyan 

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, 
gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity 
is in self-sacrifice. — Taylor 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine 
if I do not give. — Seneca 

Not what we give, but what we share— 

For the gift without the giver is bare. 

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three— 

Himself, his hungering neighbor and Me. 

—Lowell 

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the 
more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. 

—Macdonald 

Be just before you are generous. 

Giving much to the poor doth increase a man’s store. 

He gives double who gives unasked. — Arabian 

He that gives his heart will not deny his money. 

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be 
seen of them. — The Bible 

The benefactor engraves his name in the hand that 
receives the benefit. 

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the 
miser hoards himself poor. — Dutch, Danish 

One can love any man that is generous. — Hunt 

Generosity is the flower of justice. — Hawthorne 

In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we 
give up, that makes us rich. — Beecher 

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what 
he does, it must be by what he gives. • — South 

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GENEROSITY 

Bounty always receives part of its value from the man¬ 
ner it is bestowed. —Johnson 

The truly generous is the truly wise. —Horace 

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves hap¬ 
piest when others share their happiness with them. 

—Duncan 

When you give, take to yourself no credit for gen¬ 
erosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that 
you may give. —Taylor 

There is a greatness in being generous. 

—Goldsmith 

The generous who is always just, and the just who is 
always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne 
of heaven. —Lavater 


[See also Charity ,] 


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Gratitude 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from 
the soul. — Ballou 

Gratefulness is the poor man’s payment. 

Gratitude is the least of virtues; but ingratitude, the 
worst of vices. 

Thanks is the poor man’s money. 

Cast no dirt in the well that gives you water. 

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. — Massieu 

Let the man who would be grateful, think of repaying 
a kindness, even while receiving it. — Seneca 

Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings 
renewed kindnesses. — Mme. de Sevigne 

If I only have will to be grateful, I am so. 

—Seneca 

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. 

—Auerbach 

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good 
thing. — Macdonald 

A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most 
perfect prayer. — Lessing 

A grateful mind is a great mind. — Seeker 

He enjoys much who is thankful for little. 

—Seeker 


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GRATITUDE 


Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which 
none have a right to expect. — Rousseau 

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude. 

—Cook 

Gratitude is the fruit of great cultivation. 

—Johnson 

Thou that hast given so much to me, give one thing 
more—a grateful heart. — Herbert 

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; 
he who does one should never remember it. 

—Charron 

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of grat¬ 
itude, when it is not in our power to repay it. 

—Franklin 

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, 
I take it for granted there would be as much generosity 
if he were rich. — Pope 

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledg¬ 
ing a good turn, as in doing it. — Seneca 

[See also Thankfulness.~\ 


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Greatness 

A great man scorns to trample on a worm or to cringe 
to an emperor. —Collier 

He who climbs too high may have a fall; 

But better a fall than not climb at all. 

High places have their precipices. 

It is more noble to make yourself great than to be 
born so. 

It takes greatness to discern greatness. 

None think the great unhappy but the great. 

—Young 

No really great man ever thought himself so. 

—Hazlitt 

The greatest men are the simplest. 

The real leaders do not always march at the head of 
the procession. 

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make 
great occasions. —Lowell 

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s 
heart. —Mencius 

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 

—Taylor 

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. 

—Cicero 


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GREATNESS 


He is great who is what he is from nature, and who 
never reminds us of others. . — Emerson 

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must al¬ 
ways have had a very low standard of it in his mind. 

—H azlitt 

He that once is good, is ever great. — Jonson 

That man is great, and he alone 
Who serves a greatness not his own. 

—Meredith 

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great 
things, even though they fail. — Seneca 

Some are horn great, some achieve greatness, and some 
have greatness thrust upon them. — Shakespeare 

So are great deeds as natural to great men, 

As mean things are to small ones. 

—Macdonald 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

—-Longfellow 

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. 

—Dante 

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, 
but great minds rise above it. — Irving 

Great men are sincere. — Emerson 

In a great soul everything is great. — Pascal 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


That man is great who can use the brains of others 
to carry on his work. — Piatt 

The first step to greatness is to be honest. 

—Johnson 

A great mind becomes a great fortune. — Seneca 

No man ever yet became great by imitation. 

—Johnson 

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most 
invincible resolution. — Seneca 

That man is great who rises to the emergencies of 
the occasion and becomes master of the situation. 

—Piatt 

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we 
must measure a great man. — Lewes 

What your heart thinks great is great. Emerson 

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a 
great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays 
study. — Parker 

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be 
simple is to be great. — Emerson 

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own 
littleness than disbelief in great men. — Carlyle 

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as 
if one was never to die. — Vauvenargues 

He who does the most good is the greatest man. 

—Jortin 


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GREATNESS 


He only is great at heart who floods the world with a 
great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the 
world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who 
does something to shape the world to a great career. And 
he is greatest who does the most of all these things and 
does them best. —Hitchcock 

A great man is made so for others. —Wilson 

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget great¬ 
ness and ask for truth, and he will find both. —Mann 

There never was any heart truly great and gracious, 
that was not also tender and compassionate. —South 

A nation’s greatness resides not in her material re¬ 
sources, but in her will, faith, intelligence and moral 
forces. —Hoppin 

The greatest men in all ages have been lovers of their 
kind. Faith in men and love to men are unfailing marks 
of true greatness. —Jones 

There is but one method, and that is hard labor; and 
a man who will not pay that price for greatness had bet¬ 
ter at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox, 
or to talk of bullocks. —Smith 

He is great enough that is his own master. 

—Hall 

Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good. 

—Rowe 

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportu¬ 
nities, but to make them. —Colton 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Great men undertake great things because they are 
great. — Vauvenargues 

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, 
must always be in one sense a great man. — Mulock 

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly 
good and partaking of God’s holiness. — Henry 

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using 
of strength. — Beecher 

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of 
God. — Longfellow 

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive 
and arrogant. — Beecher 

The great man is to be the servant of mankind. 

—Parker 

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows 
upon a people. — Hillard 

There was never yet a truly great man that was not 
at the same time truly virtuous. — Franklin 

There is a better thing than the great man who is al¬ 
ways speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks 
when he has a great word to say. — Winter 

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great ef¬ 
fort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and 
he does it without effort. — Ruskin 

Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they 
stand also for great virtues. — Giles 

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GREATNESS 


No man has come to true greatness who has not felt 
in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that 
what God gives him He gives him for mankind. 

—Brooks 

He is truly great that is great in charity. 

—Thomas a Kempis 

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are 
the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. 

—H eine 

True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It 
is all alive with robust and generous sympathies. 

—Hitchcock 

That man is great, and he alone, 

Who serves a greatness not his own, 

For neither praise nor pelf: 

Content to know and be unknown: 

Whole in himself. 

—B ulwer-Lytton 

[See also Nobleness. 


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Habit 


Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, 
and at last we cannot break it. — Mann 

Habit is stronger than nature. — Rufus 

Pursuits become habits. — Ovid 

Nothing is stronger than habit. — Ovid 

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. — Cicero 

When evil habits are once settled, they are more easily 
broken than mended. — Quintilian 

All habits gather by unseen degrees, 

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 

—Dryden 

How shall I a habit break? 

As you did that habit make; 

As we builded stone by stone, 

We must toil, unhelped, alone, 

Till the wall is overthrown. — O’Reilly 

It is a thousand times easier to contract a new habit than 
to get rid of an old one. 

It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them. 

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. 

— St. Augustine 

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt 
till they are too strong to be broken. — Johnson 

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HABIT 


If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same 
follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. 

—Dryden 

The power of habit is very strong. — Syrus 

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you 
reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. 

—Reade 

A civil habit oft covers a good man. 

—Beaumont and Fletcher 

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome 
by habit. — Erasmus 

The fox changes his skin but not his habits. 

—Suetonius 

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pat¬ 
tern which was weaving when the sun went down is weav¬ 
ing when it comes up to-morrow. — Beecher 

Habit is necessary to give power. — Hazlitt 

A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. 

—Raley 

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother. 

—Auerbach 

Unless the habit leads to happiness, the best habit is to 
contract none. — Zimmerman 

Habit is the deepest law of human nature. — Carlyle 

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere 
habit! — Terence 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap. 

—Kincaid 

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and 
permanent result is the formation or establishment of a 
virtuous character. — Chalmers 

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless char¬ 
acter, as an ink drop soileth the pure white page. 

—Ballou 

The will that yields the first time with some reluctance 
does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third 
time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted. 

—Giles 

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a 
second nature. — Bacon 

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit.— Edwards 

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. 

—Dryden 

Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of 
masters. — Emmons 

A large part of Christian virtue consists in good habits. 

—Paley 

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts 
to change the course of his own life very often labors in 

vain. — Johnson 

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of pov¬ 
erty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the 
habits to which you train your children. Teach them right 
habits, then, and their future life is safe. — Sigourney 
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Happiness 

Happiness consists in being perfectly satisfied with what 
we have got and with what we haven’t got. — Spurgeon 

No man is happy who does not think himself so. 

—Antoninus 

Our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the 
way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those 
events themselves. — Humboldt 

Seek for happiness for its own sake, and you will not 
find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the 
shadow comes with the sunshine. — Edwards 

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves hap¬ 
piest when others share their happiness with them. 

—Taylor 

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was 
born a twin. — Byron 

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always 
just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down 
quietly, may alight upon you. — Hawthorne 

Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and 
in our having only right desires. — St. Augustine 

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, 
but nothing satisfies the fool; and this is the reason why 
so many of mankind are miserable.— La Rochefoucauld 

If you cannot be happy in one way, be in another. 

—Sharp 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Man counts happiness in a thousand shapes; and the 
faster he follows it the swifter it flies from him. 

—T illotson 

Fixed to no spot is happiness; ’tis nowhere to be found, 
or everywhere. —Pope 

Don’t try to be happy. Happiness is a shy nymph, and 
if you chase her you will never catch her; but go quietly 
on in the way of duty and she will come to you .—Nott 

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are, some¬ 
thing to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 

—Addison 

The sweetest bird builds near the ground, 

The loveliest flowers spring low, 

And we must stoop for happiness, 

If we its worth would know. —Swain 

You have never seen a happy face ugly. —Locke 

The message from the hedge leaves, 

Heed it whoso thou art; 

Under lowly eaves 

Lives the happy heart. —Cheney 

We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. 

—Cicero 

If solid happiness we prize, 

Within our breast this jewel lies, 

And they are fools who roam; 

The world has nothing to bestow. 

From our own selves our bliss must flow. 

—Cotton 


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HAPPINESS 


Happy hearts and happy faces, 

Happy play in grassy places, 

That was how, in ancient ages, 

Children grew to kings and sages. — Stevenson 

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; 

Weep, and you weep alone; 

For this brave earth must borrow it’s mirth, 

It has trouble enough of its own. — Wilcox 

Happiness depends, as nature shows, 

Less on exterior things than most suppose. 

—Cow per 

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits 
of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 
it were his own. — Goethe 

‘ Happiness consists in activity; such is our nature: it 
is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. — Good 

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real 
happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy. — Horace 

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness 
for the greatest numbers; and that worst, which in like 
manner, occasions misery. — Hutcheson 

What is there given by the gods more desirable than a 
happy hour! — Catullus 

The great secret of happiness is to be at ease with your¬ 
self. — Fontenelle 

The first secret of happiness—find some one to love and 
serve, and the thing is done. — Norris 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Happiness is increased, not by the enlargement of the 
possessions, but of the heart. 

All happiness is in the mind. 

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. 

Be always merry as ever you can, 

For no one delights in a sorrowful man. 

Be good, do good, and you will be happy. 

Happiness invites envy. —Latin 

If happiness have not her seat 
And center in the breast, 

We may be wise, or rich, or great, 

But never blest. —Burns 

If you can be well without health, you may be happy 
without virtue. 

If you would be happy and content, never borrow trouble 
or lend money. 

Industry, honesty and temperance are essential to hap¬ 
piness. 

Neither gold nor grandeur can render us happy. 

—La Fontaine 

’Tis not what we have but what we enjoy that makes us 
happy. 

True happiness is found in making others happy. 

True happiness is to no place confined, 

But still is found in a contented mind. 

—Horace 


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HAPPINESS 


Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay 
for its counterfeit! — Ballou 

True happiness, if understood, 

Consists alone in doing good. — Somerville 

You will not rightly call him a happy man who pos¬ 
sesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy 
who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in 
suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse 
than death. — Horace 

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, 
have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by 
them. — Juvenal 

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose 
ourselves to be. — La Rochefoucauld 

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full 
description of a happy state in this world. — Locke 

To be strong is to be happy. — Longfellow 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; 

The wise grows it under his feet. — Oppenheim 

Fix’d to no spot is happiness sincere; 

’Tis nowhere to be found, or ev’rywhere; 

’Tis never to be bought, but always free. — Pope 

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, 
who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must 
live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. 

—Seneca 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. — Brooks 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Learn something beautiful, see something beautiful, do 
something beautiful each day of your life. — Palmer 

True happiness is to no spot confined, 

If you preserve a firm and constant mind, 

Tis here, ’tis everywhere. — Wynne 

He who is good is happy. — Habington 

Happiness seems made to be shared. — Corneille 

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. — Curtis 

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we 
seek it. — Petit-Senn 

Those who seek for something more than happiness in 
this world must not complain if happiness is not their 
portion. 

Human happiness depends mainly upon the improve¬ 
ment of small opportunities. — Basford 

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live 
so as to deserve happiness. — Fichte 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be 
picked in strange gardens. — Jerrold 

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of 
men. — Alger 

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but 
know how to use her benefits. — Claudian 

True happiness renders men kind and sensible; and 
that happiness is always shared with' others. 

—Montesquieu 


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HAPPINESS 


No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miser¬ 
able. — Landon 

The haunts of happiness are varied, but I have more 
often found her among little children, home firesides, and 
country houses than anywhere else. — Smith 

Happiness is not perfected till it is shared. — Porter 

He only is happy as well as great who needs neither to 
obey nor command in order to be something. — Goethe 

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone 
that can make anyone happy or miserable. — UEstrange 

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and 
educates what is best in us. — Hamerton 

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate 
than yourself. — Plutarch 

The great highroad of human welfare and happiness 
lies among the highway of steadfast well-doing, and they 
who are the most persistent and work in the truest spirit, 
will invariably be the most successful. — Smiles 

To be happy you must forget yourself. 

—B ulwer-Lytton 


[See also Cheerfulness .] 


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Helpfulness 

Do something for each other, 

Though small the help may be; 

There’s comfort oft in little things, 

Far more than others see. 

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; 
look out and not in; lend a hand. —Hale 

A sense of a lowly will to help the lowly living, 

And a terrible heart thrill, if you*have no power of 
giving; 

An aim to aid the weak, a friendly hand to the friendless, 
Kind words so short to speak, but whose echo is endless, 
The world is wide, these things are small, 

They may be nothing, but they are all. —Milnes 

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but 
of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small 
obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve 
the heart and secure comfort. —Sir Humphrey Davy 

To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also 
lends a helping hand. —TEschylus 

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and 
sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. 

—Burke 

God helps him who strives hard. —Euripides 

Light is the task when many share the toil. —Homer 
God helps those who help themselves. —Sidney 

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HELPFULNESS 


In man’s most dark extremity, oft succor comes from 
heaven. — Scott 

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.— Burton 

’Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him 
after. — Shakespeare 

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch 
before. — Hubbard 

If I can stop one heart from breaking, 

I shall not live in vain; 

If I can ease one life the aching, 

Or cool one pain, 

Or help one fainting robin 
Into his nest again, 

I shall not live in vain. — Dickinson 

Beautiful hands are they that do 
Deeds that are noble, good and true; 

Busy with them the long day through. 

—Miller 

God helps everyone with what is his own.— Cervantes 

Good deeds ring through heaven like a bell.— Richter 

The very flowers that bend and meet, 

In sweetening others grow more sweet. 

—Holmes 

Beautiful feet are they that go 
Swiftly to lighten another’s woe, 

Through the summer’s heat or winter’s snow. 

—Miller 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help 
is better than a pound of preaching. — Bulwer-Lytton 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this 
life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without 
helping himself. — Shakespeare 

God has so ordered that men, being in need of each 
other, should learn to love each other, and bear each 
other’s burdens. — Sala 

A grain does not fill a sack, but it helps its fellow. 

—Spanish 

A little help does a great deal. — French 

A little thing often brings great help. — German 

A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. 

—Danish 

Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak. 

—French 

When need is greatest, help is nearest. — German 
[See also Service, Usefulness.] 


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Heroism 

If hero mean sincere man, why may not every one of 
us be a hero? — Carlyle 

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to 
that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. 

—Emerson 

The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of 
our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his 
successor of to-morrow. — Irving 

Heroism is simple and yet it is rare. — Billings 

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.— Billings 

I have simply tried to do what seems right each day as 
each day came around. — Lincoln 

Heroism—the divine relation which in all times unites 
a great man to other men. — Carlyle 

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are per¬ 
formed within four walls and in domestic privacy. 

—Richter 

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of 
arms. — Seneca 

The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, 
and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised. 

—Beecher 

Whoe’er excels in what we prize, 

Appears a hero in our eyes. — Swift 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


If we must have heroes, and wars wherein to make them, 
there is no war so brilliant as a war with wrong; no hero 
so fit to be sung as he who has gained the bloodless vic¬ 
tory of truth and mercy. — Bushnell 

A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and 
outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest 
empire of the earth. — Garfield 

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in 
our lives. — Ellis 

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. 

—Emerson 

Of two heroes, he is the greatest who esteems his rivals 
most. — Beaumelle 

However great the advantages which nature bestows on 
us, it is not she alone, but fortune in conjunction with her, 
which makes heroes. — La Rochefoucauld 

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. — Emerson 

Unbounded courage and compassion joined . . . make 
the hero and the man complete. — Addison 

To live well in the quiet routine of life, to go on cheer¬ 
fully with a petty round of little duties, to smile for the 
joys of others when the heart is aching—is to be one of 
God’s heroes. — Farrar 

The heroes of literary history have been no less remark¬ 
able for what they have suffered, than for what they have 
achieved. — Johnson 

[See also Bravery, Courage, Patriotism .] 

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Honesty 

An honest man is respected by all parties. — Hazlitt 

An honest man’s the noblest work of God. — Pope 

Honest minds are pleased with honest things. 

—Beaumont and Fletcher 

An honest heart possesses a kingdom. — Seneca 

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. 

—B ulwer-Lytton 

The badge of honesty is simplicity. — Novalis 

Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. — Otway 

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame. 

—Feltham 

An honest man is able to speak for himself, when a 
knave is not. — Shakespeare 

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must 
always be becoming. — Cicero 

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness, all in 
one. — Richardson 

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough 
to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, 
the character of an “honest man.” — Washington 

An honest man’s word is his bond. — Dutch 

He is the wise man who is the honest man. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

Honesty is not only the best policy, but the best 
principle. — Hoss 

Honesty in little things is not a little thing. 

Honesty maketh rich, but she works slowly.— German 

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions. 

—Franklin 

No honest man ever repented of his honesty. 

Nothing is profitable which is dishonest. — Cicero 

One honest word is better than two oaths. —Turkish 

Only that which is honestly got is gain. 

The upright man speaks as he thinks. 

Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, 
while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. 

— Petit-Senn 

Honest and courageous people have very little to say 
about either their courage or their honesty. — Ballou 

No man is wise or safe but he that is honest. 

—Raleigh 

Honesty is not only “the first step toward greatness,” it 
is greatness itself. — Bovee 

Honesty is firm and upright, and yields not. 

—Colton 

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be 
sure there is one rascal less in the world. — Carlyle 

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HONESTY 


It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him 
one and the same word meant both honor and honesty. 

—Advance 

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou 
reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be 
thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown. 

—Franklin 

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, 
is himself a knave. — Berkeley 

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best 
means of getting rich. — Mirabeau 

Prefer loss before unjust gain. — Chilo 

Lands mortgaged may return, but honesty once pawned 
is ne’er redeemed. — Middleton 

We are bound to be honest, but not bound to be rich. 

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own. 

—Hale 

He that parts with his own honesty 

For vulgar praise, doth it too dearly buy. — Johnson 

The measure of life is not length, but honesty. — Lyly 

If we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with 
each other. — Macdonald 

No legacy is so rich as honesty. — Shakespeare 

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be picked out of 
ten thousand. — Shakespeare 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

How happy is he born and taught 
That serveth not another’s will; 

Whose armour is his honest thought, 

And simple truth his utmost skill. 

—Wotton 

A clean mouth and an honest hand 
Will take a man through any land. 

—German 

A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune other¬ 
wise honestly won. —Latin 

A man never surfeits of too much honesty. 

A nod of an honest man is enough. 

A tower of strength is an honest man. 

— Bulwer-Lytton 

An honest countenance is the best passport. 

An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed. 

—French 

Honest men are bound, but you can never bind a knave. 

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark. 

Honesty lasts longest. —German 

Honesty is better than ill-gotten wealth. 

Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best at 
long run. 

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not 
the face to beg it. 


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HONESTY 


An honest man will receive neither money nor praise 
that is not his due. —Franklin 

None can be wise and safe but he that is honest. 

The best investment for income is honesty. 

You measure every man’s honesty by your own. 

Honesty is the guarantee of justice and fairness in all 
personal relations. 

Honesty cannot withhold that which belongs to others. 

Honesty cannot lie or deceive under temptation. 

Honesty does not cringe or falter before difficulties. 

Abe Lincoln we should imitate, 

For being honest made him great. 

It is better to lose with a conscience clean 
Than to win by a trick unfair; 

It is better to fail and know you’ve been— 
Whatever the prize was—square. 

Dare to be honest, good and sincere, 

Dare to please God, and you never need fear. 

Whate’er you think, whate’er you do, 

Whate’er you purpose or pursue, 

It may be small, but must be true. 


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Honor 

A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor. 

—Italian 

Before honor is humility. — The Bible 

Honor is the reward of virtue. — Cicero 

A man of honor is one who is faithful to his word. 

—T urkish 

Among men of honor a word is a bond. 

—Italian 

Better a little with honor than much with shame. 

Refuse to do a mean act, be it ever so small. 

Sacrifice money rather than principle. 

A man is not known till he cometh to honor. 

—Dutch 

A man’s word is his hortor. — Danish 

A man that breaks his word bids others be false to him. 

Better deserve honor and not have it, than have it and 
not deserve it. — Portuguese 

Better with honor die than live with shame. 

—German 

Conduct and courage lead to honor. 

He who partakes the honor, should partake in the labor. 

—Petrarch 


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HONOR 


Honor and good name easily lost, with difficulty re¬ 
gained. — German 

Honor lost, much lost; life lost, more lost; soul lost, all 
lost. — German 

Honor a good man that he may honor you and a 
bad one that he may not dishonor you. 

—Portuguese 

Honor the tree that gives you shelter. — Danish 

Honor thy father and mother. — The Bible 

If I lose my honor, I lose myself. — Shakespeare 

It is better to be beloved than honored. 

Nothing will bring you more honor than to do what 
right you may. — Bacon 

Suffering and patience, obedience and application help 
the lowly born to honor. — Danish 

Take honor from me and my life is done. 

—Shakespeare 

The honors of this world are the principles of virtue. 

The man without honor is worse than dead. 

—Cervantes 

The more danger the more honor. 

The surest road to honor is to deserve it. 

Who will grow old with honor must begin early. 

—German 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


You can easily pass into the temple of honor through 
the temple of virtue. — Turkish 

With honor in store, what would you have more? 

—Dutch 

That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake 
everything on her honor. — Schiller 

Better death than dishonor. — German 

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, 
that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally 
noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, 
or a refined education. — Addison 

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; 
we can never reenter it once we are on the outside. 

—Boileau 

Honor lies in honest toil. — Cleveland 

What is honorable is also safest. — Livy 

Titles do not reflect honor on men, rather men on their 
titles. — Machiavelli 

When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; 

But reach not to seize it before it is near. 

— O'Reilly 

A good intention does not mean honor. — Rabelais 

Let us do what our honor demands. — Racine 

Better to die ten thousand deaths, 

Than wound my honour. — Addison 

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HONOR 


As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 

So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 

—Shakespeare 

The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort; 
yes, than the nation’s life itself. —Wilson 

Honor and shame from no condition rise; 

Act well your part, there all the honor lies. —Pope 

When cannon are roaring, 

And hot bullets flying, 

He that would honor win 
Must not fear dying. 

From our ancestors come our names, but from our hon¬ 
esty our honor. 

Where honor ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth. 

—Shakespeare 

The soul asks honor, and not fame; to be upright, not 
to be successful; to be good, not prosperous; to be essen¬ 
tially, not outwardly, respectable. —Stevenson 

If honor calls, where’er she points the way 
The sons of honor follow, and obey. 

—Churchill 

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, 
though there is no witness. —Ausonius 


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Humility 

The meekness of Moses is better than the strength of 
Samson. 

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 

—The Bible 

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He 
shall exalt you. —The Bible 

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. 

—Confucius 

Humility often gains more than pride. —Italian 

Humility, that low sweet root 
From which all heavenly virtues shoot. 

—Moore 

It is hard to be high and humble. 

Before honor goeth humility. —The Bible 

There is no true holiness without humility. 

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 

—Cow per 

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, 

And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. 

—Bailey 

God hath sworn to lift on high 
Who sinks himself by true humility. 

—Keble 


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HUMILITY 


The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his 
own esteem. — Spurgeon 

Oh, be very sure 

That no man will learn anything at all, 

Unless he first will learn humility. 

One may be humble out of pride. — Montaigne 

Fairest and best adorned is she 
Whose clothing is humility. 

—Montgomery 

Nearest the throne itself must be 

The footstool of humility. — Montgomery 

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. 

—Spurgeon 

The casting down of our spirits in true humility is like 
throwing a ball to the ground, which makes it rebound the 
higher toward heaven. —Mason 

True humility is not a self-despising spirit; it is but a 
right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Edwards 

It is humility that makes men as angels. 

— St. Augustine 

Be wise; soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. 

—Massinger 

They that know God will be humble; they that know 
themselves cannot be proud. —Flavel 

To be humble when you are praised is a great and rare 
attainment. — St. Bernard 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


I believe the first test of a truly great man is his hu¬ 
mility. — Ruskin 

Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. 

—Lowell 

Modest humility is beauty’s crown. — Schiller 

Content thyself to live obscurely good. — Addison 

My favored temple is an humble heart. — Bailey 

True love is the parent of a noble humility. 

—Channing 

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor 
and life. — The Bible 

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. 

—Franklin 

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too hum¬ 
bly of ourselves. — Colton 

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. 

—Thoreau 

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it 

leads to self-improvement. — Brodie 

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation and bond 
of all virtue. — Chrysostom 

An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a 

kingdom. — Penn 

Sense shines with a double lustre when it is set in 
humility. — Penn 


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HUMILITY 


True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the 
low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. 

—Burke 

It is in vain to gather virtues without humility, for the 
spirit of God delighteth to dwell in the hearts of the 
humble. —Erasmus 

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God 
and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself 
little, and others much. —Leighton 

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than 
he ought to, exercises the truest humility. —Colton 

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. 

—Quarles 

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on our¬ 
selves is the difficulty. —Peterborough 


[111] 


Industry 

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy 
we are, the more leisure we have. — Hazlitt 

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor. 

—Reynolds 

Earnest, active industry is a living hymn of praise, a 
never failing source of happiness. — Mme. de Wald 

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do any¬ 
thing which genius can do, and very many things which 
it cannot. — Beecher 

To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. — Bailey 

If you have great talents, industry will improve them. 

—Smiles 

The bread earned by the sweat of the brow is thrice 
blessed bread, and it is far sweeter than the tasteless loaf 
of idleness. — Crowquill 

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. 
It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; 
that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best 
use of both. — Franklin 

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs 
himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it 
may not be of the choicest description. — Goethe 

Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, 
but the foundation of pleasure. — Blair 

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INDUSTRY 


For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, 
save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil. 

—Chapin 

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry 
to attain to. — Clarendon 

Industry need not wish. — French 

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things 
easy. — French 

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them. 

—Joubert 

One loses all the time which he can employ better. 

—Rousseau 

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the 
richest rewards. — Barrow 

The great end of all human industry is the attainment 
of happiness. — Hume 

A man who gives his children habits of industry pro¬ 
vides for them better than by giving them a fortune. 

—Whately 

Honorable industry always travels the same road with 
enjoyment and duty; and progress is altogether impossible 
without it. — Smiles 

This world belongs to the energetic. — Emerson 

Nothing so difficult but may be won by industry. 

—T erence 


There is always room at the top. 

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—Webster 


GOODLY COMPANY 


When industry goes out the door, poverty comes in the 
window. —Dutch 

At the working-man’s house hunger looks in, but dares 
not enter. —Franklin 


Nothing is impossible to industry. —Periander 

If a task is once begun, 

Do not leave it till it’s done. 


Plow deep while sluggards sleep, and you’ll have corn 
to sell and keep. —Franklin 


How doth the little bifsy bee 
Improve each shining hour, 
And gather honey all the day 
From every opening flower. 


Nothing without labor. 


—Watts 


An industrious life is the best security for food in old 
age. —Latin 

A stitch in time saves nine. 


Care and diligence bring reward. 

Employment brings enjoyment. 

Heaven helps those who help themselves. 

—Franklin 

In every rank, great or small, 

’Tis industry supports us all. —Gay 

Industry is the parent of fortune. —German 

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INDUSTRY 


Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. 

—Franklin 

Industry is the parent of success. 

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an 
hour. — Franklin 

If you’ve any task to do, 

Let me whisper, friend, to you, 

Do it. 

A good head and industrious hand are worth gold in 
any land. — German 

It is better to wear out than to rust out. 

—Cumberland 

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amuse¬ 
ment. — Goldsmith 


Fortune may find a pot, but your industry must make 
it boil. — Gay 

Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the 
heart whole, and the purse full. — Simmons 

Excellence is never granted to man, but as a reward of 
labor. — Reynolds 

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a 

useful man. — Emmons 

An hour’s industry will do more to produce cheerful¬ 
ness, suppress evil humors than a month’s moaning. 

—Barrow 


[See also Diligence , tFork.] 
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Justice 

Justice consists in doing no injury to men: decency in 
giving them no offence. —Cicero 

He that spares the wicked injures the good. —Syrus 

It is folly to expect justice from the unprincipled. 

Justice is the rightful sovereign of the world. 

—Pindar 

Justice tempered with too much mercy becomes in¬ 
justice. 

Let justice be done though the heavens fall. —Latin 

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. 

—Syrus 

The just man will flourish in spite of envy. —Latin 

The memory of the just is blessed. —The Bible 

What is just and right is the law of laws. 

When anger in the bosom lies, 

Justice out the window flies. 

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved 
from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage 
of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious 
tyrant. —Horace 

Be just and fear not; 

Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, 

Thy God’s and Truth’s. -—Shakespeare 

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JUSTICE 

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. 

—Addison 

Who spares vice wrongs virtue. — Syrus 

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society. 

—Burke 

Amongst the sons of men how few are known 
Who dare be just to merit not their own. 

—Churchill 

Justice renders to every one his due. — Cicero 

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price: she is 
sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Cicero 

The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than 
the fear of suffering injustice. — La Rochefoucauld 

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to 
the lowest. — Cicero 

The foundations of justice are that no one shall suffer 
wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Cicero 

Extreme justice is extreme injustice. — Cicero 

The people become more observant of justice, and do 
not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed 
by their enactor. — Claudianus 

Justice is truth in action. — Disraeli 

Whoever fights, whoever falls, 

Justice conquers evermore. — Emerson 

Justice without wisdom is impossible. — Froude 

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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which 
is just can really harm no one. — George 

Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom 
failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. — Horace 

There is a point at which even justice does injury. 

—Sophocles 

A sense of justice is a noble fancy. — Tegner 

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, 
though he decide justly, cannot be considered just. 

—Seneca 

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth 
more and more unto the perfect day. — The Bible 

A just man is not one who does no ill, 

But he who, with the power, has not the will. 

-—Philemon 

Just are the ways of God, 

And justifiable to men. — Milton 

.The sunshine aye shall light the sky, 

As round and round we run; 

And the truth shall ever come uppermost, 

And justice shall be done. — Mackay 

He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to him 
who is armed. — Lucan 

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice 
triumphs. — Longfellow 

Justice is the soul of the universe. — Khayyam 

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JUSTICE 


Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. 

—Emerson 

Justice delayed is justice denied. — Gladstone 

Delay of justice is injustice. — Landor 

He who is only just is cruel. — Byron 

The great soul of this world is just.. — Carlyle 

Peace if possible, but justice at any rate. — Phillips 

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous. 

—Roux 

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. 

—Epictetus 

Be just in all thy actions, and if join’d 
With those that are not, never change thy mind. 

—Denham 

Above all other things is justice; success is a good thing; 
wealth is good also; honor is better; but justice excels 
them all. — Field 

Justice is the bread of the nation. — Chateaubriand 

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and 
property. — Penn 

Justice is the great interest of man on earth. 

—Webster 

Justice and power must be brought together, so that 
whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is power¬ 
ful, may be just. — Pascal 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


One man’s word is no man’s word; we should quietly 
hear both sides. —Goethe 

Justice is the constant desire and effort to render to 
every man his due. —Justinian 

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations, as 
between neighbor citizens. —Franklin 

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule 
of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. —Parker 

Justice is to give to every man his own. —Aristotle 

Justice is the great and simple principle which is the 
secret of success in all government. —Simms 

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and 
stops the complaints of those who obey. —Diderot 

An honest man nearly always thinks justly. 

—Rousseau 

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and 
justice, neither is safe. —Burke 


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Kindness 

Kindness is nobler than revenge. —Shakespeare 

How wise must one be to be always kind. 

— Ebner-Eschenbach 

A forced kindness deserves no thanks. 

A kindness bestowed on the good is never lost. 

—Latin 

How quickly withal is a kindness forgotten! 

—Latin 

Kindness is more binding than a loan. —Chinese 

Men are great only as they are considerate and kind. 

A kind deed is never lost, although you may not see 
the results. 

Have you had a kindness shown? 

Pass it on; 

’Twas not given for thee alone, 

Pass it on; 

Let it travel down the years, 

Let it wipe another’s tears, 

’Till in Heaven the deed appears— 

Pass it on. —Burton 

There’s no dearth of kindness 
In this world of ours; 

Only in our blindness 

We gather thorns for flowers. —Massey 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, name¬ 
less, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. 

—Wordsworth 

Write injuries in dust, 

But kindness in marble. — French 

A child may have a happy hand, 

Full of kind deeds 
For many needs. 

Be kind and be gentle 
To those who are old, 

For dearer is kindness 
And better than gold. 

Kind words are little sunbeams, 

That sparkle as they fall; 

And loving smiles are sunbeams, 

A light of joy to all. 

Kind words are the music of the world. — Faber 

Beauty lives with kindness. — Shakespeare 

Kindness gives birth to kindness. — Sophocles 

Paradise is open to all kind hearts. — Beranger 

The cheapest of all things is kindness. — Smiles 

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind 
word is never thrown away. — Helps 

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small 
courtesies, by tender, affectionate looks, and little acts of 
attention. — Sterne 


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KINDNESS 


We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness 
around us at so little expense, and all of them will bear 
fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. 

—Bentham 

Dare to speak kindly, and ever be true 

Dare to do right, and you’ll find your way through. 

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making every¬ 
thing in its vicinity freshen into smiles. — Irving 

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the 
deaf can hear and understand. — Bovee 

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting 
of unkindness in another. — Landor 

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from 
them. — Mme. de Stdel 

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business 
of life. — Johnson 

He who confers a favor should at once forget it. 

—Demosthenes 

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. 

—Prentice 

How many deeds of kindness 
A little child may do, 

Although it has so little strength, 

And little wisdom, too! 

It wants a loving spirit 

Much more than strength, to prove 

How many things a child may do 

For others, by its love. — Larcom 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Who speaketh kind words hath many friends, but the 
harsh man hath few. —Burmese 

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, 

And nothing so royal as truth. —Cary 

We cannot be just unless we are kind-hearted. 

—V auvenargues 

Cross words are like ugly weeds; 

Pleasant words are like fair flowers; 

Let us sow sweet thoughts for seeds, 

In these garden hearts of ours. —Cary 

Kindness is the sunshine of social life. 

Kindness like grain increases by sowing. 

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. 
Kindness wins friends. 

Kind words bring back echoes. 

Kind words can never die. 

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones. 

Kind words cost nothing but are worth much. 

Kind words heal friendship’s wounds. —Danish 

Never forget a kindness. 

No cut like unkindness. 

No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do. 

—Khayyam 

A kind face is a beautiful face. 

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KINDNESS 


Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life but needs it 
and may learn. —Bailey 

Kind hearts are the gardens, 

Kind thoughts are the roots, 

Kind words are the blossoms, 

Kind deeds are the fruits. — Cary 

We have careful thoughts for the stranger, 

Kind words for the sometimes guest; 

But for our own is the bitter tone, 

Though we love our own the best. 

—Sangster 

Kindness is virtue itself. —Lamartine 

Wherever there is a human being there is an oppor¬ 
tunity for a kindness. —Seneca 

If what must be given is given willingly, the kindness 
is doubled. —Syrus 

I will try to be kind to all harmless, living creatures, 
and to protect them from cruel usage. 

Howe’er it be, it seems to me, 

’Tis only noble to be good; 

Kind hearts are more than coronets 

And simple faith than Norman blood. 

—Tennyson 

The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves 
and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by .—Carlyle 

A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs 
little. —Italian 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound 
together. —Goethe 

Little acts of kindness, 

Little deeds of love, 

Make this earth an Eden, 

Like the Heaven above. 

I shall pass this way but once. Any good thing therefore 
that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human 
being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, 
for I shall not pass this way again. —Gilpin 

A kindness is never lost. 


A kind word is never thrown away. 

Be kindly affectionate one to another. 

An unkind word falls easily from the 
coach with six horses cannot bring it back. 

A small unkindness is a great offense. 

Better a good word than a battle. 


—The Bible 

tongue, but a 
—Chinese 

—More 


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Loyalty 

Be true to your word, your work and your friend. 

—Boyle 

To all the world I give my hand; 

My heart I give my native land, 

I seek her good, her glory; 

I honor every nation’s name, 

Respect their fortune and their fame, 

But love the land that bore me. — Selected 

Ye who love the Republic, remember the claim 
Ye owe to her fortune, ye owe to her fame, 

To her years of prosperity, past and in store, 

The hundreds behind you, the thousands before. 

—Butterworth 

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam, 

His first, best country ever is at home. — Goldsmith 

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. 

—Vaughn 

Master, go on, and I will follow thee, 

To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. 

—Shakespeare 

To thine own self be true, 

And it must follow as the night the day, 

Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

v —Shakespeare 

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the 
American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union. 

—Choate 

[See also Bravery, Courage, Patriotism .] 

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Manners 

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his 
image. —Goethe 

Manners often make fortunes. 

Manners are of more importance than laws. —Burke 

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way 
through the world. —Chesterfield 

Good boys and girls should never say, 

“I will,” and “Give me these.” 

Oh no, that never is the way, 

But, “Mother, if you please.” 

I will speak more kindly and considerately to those 
whose claims are unrecognized by the society in which I 
live, than I will to others. I will bow more cordially to 
those to whom persons of position do not bow at all, and 
I will try in a thousand pleasant, nameless ways to make 
them happier. —Willard 

To be always thinking about your manners is not the 
way to make them good; because the very perfection of 
manners is not to think about yourself. —Whately 

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. 

—Emerson 

Suit your manner to the man. —Terence 

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful face. 
It is the finest of the fine arts. 

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MANNERS 

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in 
others. —Emerson 

A child should always say what’s true 

And speak when he is spoken to 

And behave mannerly at table, 

At least as far as he is able. —Stevenson 

Speak gently! it is better far 
To rule by love than fear; 

Speak gently! let not harsh words mar 
The good we might do here. 

If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek, 

Five things observe with care; 

To whom you speak, of whom you speak, 

And how, and when, and where. 

Deem it not an idle thing 

A pleasant word to speak. 

Dare to be gentle and orderly too; 

Dare shun evil, whatever you do. 

He who has conferred a favor should be silent; he who 
has received one should speak of it. —Seneca 

Do you wish the world were better? 

Let me tell you what to do: 

Set a watch upon your actions, 

Keep them always straight and true. 

Rid your mind of selfish motives, 

Let your thoughts be clean and high. 

You can make a little Eden 
Of the sphere you occupy. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Good manners cannot be put on at pleasure, like an 
outside coat, but must belong to us. 

Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Alcott 

A man’s worth is estimated in this world according to 
his conduct. — La Bruyere 

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in 
most men’s power to be agreeable. — Swift 

Good manners is the art of making those people easy 
with whom we converse. — Swift 

There is no policy like politeness, and a good manner 
is the best thing in the world. — Bulwer-Lytton 

Manners are the happy ways of doing things. 

—Emerson 

Good sense, kindness of heart, and a proper self-respect 
are the elements of the best manners. — Edwards 

If we strive to become what we strive to appear, man¬ 
ners may often be useful guides to the performance of 
our duties. — Smith 

Good manners are the blossom of good sense and good 
feeling. — Johnson 

The manner of saying or of doing anything goes a great 
way in the value of the thing itself. — Seneca 

Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good 
manners. — Anon 

Good manners are a part of good morals; and it is as 
much our duty as our interest to practice both.— Hunter 
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MANNERS 


One of the most important rules as to manners is to be 
for the most part silent as to yourself. — Hume 

Good manners, as we call them, are neither more nor 
less than good behavior, consisting of courtesy and 
kindness. — Smiles 

Fine manners are like personal beauty, a letter of credit 
everywhere. — Bartol 

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study 
of manners. — Willis 

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak 
obligingly. — Voltaire 

Manners should bespeak the man, independent of fine 
clothing. The general does not need a fine coat. 

—Emerson 

Meat is much, but manners are more. 

Striking manners are bad manners. 

New honors change manners. 


[See also Politeness , Rules of Conduct , Courtesy .] 


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Music 

Let not the man be trusted that hath no music in his soul. 

—Shakespeare 

Music has charms alone for peaceful minds. — Pope 

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday 
life. — Auerbach 

Such as the music is, such are the people of the com¬ 
monwealth. — Turkish 

Where there’s music there can be no harm. 

—Cervantes 

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. 

—Congreve 

There’s music in the sighing of a reed; 

There’s music in the gushing of a rill; 

There’s music in all things, if men had ears: 

This earth is but an echo of the spheres. — Byron 

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, 

Expels diseases, softens every pain, 

Subdues the rage of poison, and of plague. 

—Armstrong 

Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. 

—Bampfylde 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard 
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. 

—Keats 


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MUSIC 

The musician who always plays on the same string is 
laughed at. — Horace 

God is its author, and not man; He laid 
The keynote of all harmonies; He planned 
All perfect combinations, and He made 
Us so that we could hear and understand. 

—Brainard 

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 

—Carlyle 

Music is in all growing things; 

And underneath the silky wings 
Of smallest insects there is stirred 
A pulse of air that must be heard; 

Earth’s silence lives, and throbs and sings. 

—Lathrop 

Music is the universal language of mankind. 

—Longfellow 

Yea, music is the Prophet’s art— 

Among the gifts that God hath sent, 

One of the most magnificent. — Longfellow 

Music resembles poetry: in each 

Are nameless graces which no methods teach 

And which a master hand alone can reach. — Pope 

How light the touches are that kiss 

The music from the chords of life! — Patmore 

Music is the fourth great material want of our natures 
—first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. 

—Bovee 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

Music, rather than poetry, should be called “the happy 
art.” — Richter 

Music is the poetry of the air. — Richter 

The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 

Till waked and kindled by the Master’s spell. 

—Rogers 

Though music oft hath such a charm 
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. 

—Shakespeare 

The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. 

—Shakespeare 

Sweetest melodies 

Are those that are by distance made more sweet. 

—Wordsworth 

The music in my heart I bore, 

Long after it was heard no more. 

—Wor dsworth 

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, 
however rude it may be. — Quintilian 

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; 
wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners. 

—Bryant 

Music can noble hints impart, 

Engender fury, kindle love; 

With unsuspected eloquence can move, 

And manage all the man with secret art. 

—Addison 


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MUSIC 


Music is God’s best gift to man, the only art of heaven 
given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. 

—London 

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of 
spirit, and never dies. — Bulwer-Lytton 

The highest graces of music flow from the feelings of 
the heart. —Emmons 

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. 

—Chateaubriand 

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and 
grief, that does not find relief in music. —Eliot 


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Nobleness 

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract.— Goethe 

Better not be at all than not be noble. — Tennyson 

Nobility consists in virtue. — Cervantes 

A noble deed never dies. 

The more noble the more humble. 

There is a rank of mind as well as of birth. 

’Tis only noble to be good. — Tennyson 

True nobility is exempt from fear. — Shakespeare 

I am only one 
But still I am one. 

I cannot do everything, 

But still I can do something; 

And because I cannot do everything, 

I will not refuse to do the something 
I can do. — Hale 

Four things a man must learn to do, 

If he would make his calling true— 

To think without confusion clearly, 

To love his fellow-men sincerely, 

To act from honest motives purely, 

To trust in God and heaven securely. 

—Van Dyke 

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. 

—Claudianus 


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NOBLENESS 

Piety, prudence, wit and civility are the elements of 
true nobility. —German 

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions 
characterize the great. —Goldoni 

Virtue alone is true nobility. —Juvenal 

Be noble in every thought 

And in every deed! —Longfellow 

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. 

—Longfellow 

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies 
In other men, sleeping, but never dead, 

Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. —Lowell 

Whoe’er amidst the sons 
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue 
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble 
Of nature’s own creating. —Thomson 

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble 
thoughts. 

Nothing is lightly won; 

Nothing won is lost, 

Every good deed nobly done 
Will repay the cost. 

Howe’er it be, it seems to me, 

’Tis only noble to be good. —Tennyson 

He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts 
the best. 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Live up to the best that is in you; live noble lives, as 
you all may, in whatever condition you may find your¬ 
selves. 

As one lamp lights another nor grows less, 

So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. —Lowell 

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is 
not to be true to the best one knows. —Farrar 

We want no kings but kings of toil, 

No crowns but crowns of deeds; 

Not royal birth but sterling worth 

Must mark the man who leads. —Wilcox 

Noblest minds are easiest bent. —Homer 

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own 
resources, is a noble but a rare being. —Brydges 

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or 
pedigree never made one yet. —Shaw 

He who is honest is noble, 

Whatever his fortunes or birth. —Cary 

If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the 
best kind of nobility. —Plato 

Whene’er a noble deed is wrought, 

Whene’er is spoken a noble thought, 

Our hearts, in glad surprise, 

To higher levels rise. —Longfellow 

Noble souls, through dust and heat, 

Rise from disaster and defeat 

The stronger. —Longfellow 


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NOBLENESS 

Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without a gem. 

—Porter 

It is better to be nobly remembered, than nobly born. 

—Ruskin 

It is not wealth, nor ancestry, but honorable conduct 
and a noble disposition that make men great. —Ovid 

No man can ever be noble who thinks first and only of 
himself. —Dollinger 

True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. 

—Burton 

He is noble who performs noble deeds. —Dutch 

In the wreck of noble lives, 

Something immortal still survives. 

—Longfellow 

[See also Greatness .] 


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Obedience 


The boy and girl who will obey, 

And who respect what parents say; 

And who are prompt and cheerful, too, 

In doing what they’re told to do, 

Will show a parent’s trust and love, 

And form a habit that will prove 

The greatest treasure they can own 

Both while they’re young and when they’re grown; 

For only those who can obey 

Know how to rule, the wise ones say. 


All obedience worth the name 

Must be prompt and ready. —Cary 

Obedience sums up our entire duty. —Ballou 

The first great law is to obey. —Schiller 

The virtue of Christianity is obedience. —Hare 

True obedience is true liberty. —Beecher 

Obedience alone gives the right to command. 

—Emerson 


Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second 
will be what thou wilt. —Franklin 

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny. 

—Carlyle 

Obedience should commence at the cradle and end only 
at the tomb. —Ballou 


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OBEDIENCE 


We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, 
and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. 

—Emerson 

Obedience insures greatness. — Saadi 

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of 
pure obedience. — Montaigne 

From obedience and submission spring all other virtues. 

—Montaigne 

If you’re told to do a thing, 

And mean to do it really, 

Never let it be by halves, 

Do it fully, freely. — Phoebe Cary 

He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. 

—Solon 

Obedience is the entrance to life. — Sabin 

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction. 

—The Bible 

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is 
right. — The Bible 

Obedience is more seen in little things than in great. 

Obedience is the first duty of a child. 

We must obey God rather than men. — The Bible 

Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety. 

TEschylus 

Obedience decks the Christian most. — Schiller 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men 
in obedience. —Burton 

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being 
some day a commander. —Cicero 

Obedience is the key to every door. —Macdonald 

Through obedience learn to command. —Plato 

Let them obey that know not how to rule. 

—Shakespeare 

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, 
than that of obedience. —Giles 

He praiseth God best that serveth Him and obeyeth Him 
most. —Burkitt 

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised 
in obedience. —^Mill 


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Opportunity 

They do me wrong who say I come no more, 

When once I knock and fail to find you in; 

For every day I stand outside your door 
And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win. 

—Malone 

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be 
ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you 
least imagine it to be. —Ovid 

Not by appointment do we meet delight 
Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; 

But round some corner of the streets of life 
They of a sudden greet us with a smile. —Massey 

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. —Syrus 

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. 

—Shakespeare 

An opportunity well taken is the only weapon of ad¬ 
vantage. —Udale 

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred 
times a day, and of doing good once in a year. 

—Voltaire 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. 

—Bacon 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

The statue lies hid in the block of marble.— Addison 

Every dog has his day, and every man his hour. 

Know your opportunity. 

Let not slip the golden opportunity. 

Men must sail while the wind serveth. — Dutch 

Opportunities do not wait. — Greek 

The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labelled. 

There is a critical minute for all things. — Horace 

Catch the opportunity. — Latin 

The strong man and the waterfall channel their own 
path. 

The wise make tools of whatever comes to hand. 

There is an hour in each man’s life appointed 
To make his happiness, if then he seize it. 

—Beaumont and Fletcher 

A thousand years a poor man watched 
Before the gate of Paradise: 

But while one little nap he snatched, 

It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise? 

—Alger 

This could but have happened once, 

And we missed it, lost it forever. — Browning 

He that will not when he may, 

When he will he shall have nay. — Burton 

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OPPORTUNITY 


There is a nick in Fortune’s restless wheel 
For each man’s good. —Chapman 

Let nothing pass which will advantage you. —Cato 

Observe the opportunity. —The Bible 

He who grasps the moment’s gift, 

He is the proper man. —Goethe 

Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. —Hamilton 

Let us seize our opportunity from the day as it passes. 

—Horace 

The actual fact is that in this day opportunity not only 
knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on 
every man’s door, and then lays for the owner around the 
corner with a club. —Hubbard 

I knock unbidden once at every gate— 

If sleeping, wake—if feasting, rise before 
I turn away—it is the hour of fate, 

And they who follow me reach every state 
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, 
Condemned to failure, penury and woe, 

Seek me in vain and uselessly implore; 

I answer not, and I return no more. —Ingalls 

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. 

—Ovid 

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily 
lost. —Syrus 

Seize every opportunity. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


You can do more than strike with the hot iron; you 
can make the iron hot by striking. — Colton 

Do not cry and weep for chances, 

Chances that have passed away, 
Opportunities neglected— 

Grasp the chance you have to-day. 

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for 
his opportunity when it comes. — Disraeli 

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know 
they have met them. — Dunning 

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. 

—Collier 

If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities. 

—Seneca 

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and 
catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of 
life. — Johnson 

Strike while the iron is hot. — Scott 

Take all the swift advantage of the hour. 

—Shakespeare 

Every man has his appointed day. — Virgil 

Little opportunities should be improved. — Fenelon 

Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and 
prophets. — Disraeli 

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. 

—Chasles 


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OPPORTUNITY 

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work 
and wish. — Stanley 

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they 
rarely visit us twice. 

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it 
go by him. — Taylor 

When the time comes in which one could, the time has 
passed in which one can. — Ebner-EschenbacK 

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all 
opportunities. — La Rouchefoucauld 

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his 
life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, 
she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. 

—Cardinal lmperili 

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, 
but who have taken them. — Chapin 

Gather roses while they bloom, 

To-morrow is yet far away. 

Moments lost have no room 

In to-morrow or to-day. — Gleim 


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Patience 

Patience—with patience everything comes in due season. 

—-Laboulaye 

Great is the advantage of patience. — Tillotson 

Everything comes if a man will only wait. — Disraeli 

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. — Emerson 

To endure is greater than to dare. — Thackeray 

To bear is to conquer our fate. — Campbell 

Patience and gentleness are power. — Hunt 

Patience is nobler motion than any deed. — Bartox 

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Rousseau 

Patience—in patience there is safety. — Laboulaye 

Patience is the key of content. — Mahomet 

He that can have patience can have what he will. 

—Franklin 

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills 
the giant despair. — Jurold 

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. 

—De Maistre 

There is no great achievement that is not the result of 
patient working and waiting. — Holland 

Abused patience turns to fury. 

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PATIENCE 


All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. 

Patience, time and money overcome everything. 

—Italian 

The future belongs to him who knows how to wait. 

—Russian 

There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to 
bear misfortune. — Latin 

What cannot be cured must be endured. — Latin 

You must bear that which hurts that you may gain 
that which profits. — Syrus 

I work with patience, which is almost power. 

—Browning 

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. 

—Disraeli 

By time and toil we sever, 

What strength and rage could never. 

—La Fontaine 

It is hard! But what cannot be removed, becomes lighter 
through patience. — Horace 

Endurance is the crowning quality, 

And patience all the passion of great hearts. — Lowell 

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one 
day be beneficial. — Ovid 

Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own 
conduct. — Phcedrus 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be 
patient. —Eliot 

The world is for him who has patience. 

If you find your task is hard, 

Try, try again; 

Time will bring you your reward, 

Try, try again; 

All that other folks can do, 

Why, with patience, should not you? 

Only keep this rule in view, 

Try, try, again. 

If you’ve tried and have not won, 

Never stop for crying; 

All that’s great and good is done 
Just by patient trying. 

Dare to be patient and loving each day; 

Dare to speak the truth whatever you say. 

And the noblest undertakings 
Man’s wisdom hath conceived, 

By oft repeated efforts 

Have been patiently achieved. 

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry 
leaf becomes silk. —Chinese 

Heaven is not gained by a single bound, 

But we build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 

And we mount to its summit round by round. 

—Holland 


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PATIENCE 


How poor are they that have not patience! 

What wound did ever heal but by degrees! 

—Shakespeare 

Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to wait. — Longfellow 

Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into 
madness. — Syrus 

Patience is the art of hoping. — Vauvenargues 

Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. 

—Virgil 

Bear and blame not what you cannot change. 

—Syms 

Bear and forbear. — Ovid 

Bear patiently what thou sufferest by thine own fault. 

—Dutch 

Bear the best humbly and the worst resignedly. 

—Homer 

Be patient toward all men: — The Bible 

Better suffer wrong than do wrong. 

Everything which is out of our power to amend becomes 
more supportable by patience. — Horace 

Good things require time. — Dutch 

He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet. 

—Dutch 


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He who endures with patience is a conqueror. — Latin 

None are patient but the wise. 

Patience and application will carry us through. 

Patience and time accomplish more than force and 
violence. — La Fontaine 

Patience is good preaching. — German 

Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems either her 
sister or her daughter. — Aristotle 

Patience is sorrow’s salve. — Churchill 

Patience is the door of joy. — German 

Teach me, Father, how to be 
Kind and patient as a tree. 

—Markham 

Just a little every day; 

That’s the way 

Children learn to read and write. 

Bit by bit and mite by mite. 

Never any one, I say, 

Leaps to knowledge and its power. 

Slowly, slowly—hour by hour— 

That’s the way; 

Just a little every day. — Wilcox 

If knowledge is power, patience is powerful. 

—Hall 

In your patience ye are strong. — Barrett 

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PATIENCE 


Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience. 

—Thomas a Kempis 

They also serve who only stand and wait. — Milton 

The greatest and sublimest power is often simple 
patience. — Bushnell 

Patience is the ballast of the soul that will keep it from 
rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. — Hopkins 

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength. 

— Ebner-Eschenbach 

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool 
patience. — Shakespeare 

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. 

—Tertullian 

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. 

—Sidney 

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than 
beauty. — Ruskin 

No school is more necessary to children than patience. 

—Richter 

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace. 

—Horne 

Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and 
trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while 
waiting. — Hamilton 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


There are times when patience proves at fault. 

—Browning 

Endurance is the crowning quality, 

And patience all the passion of great hearts. 

—Lowell 

Patience, accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of 
affection! 

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is 
godlike. —Longfellow 

Be patient in little things. —Plummer 

One day at a time. It’s a wholesome rhyme, 

A good one to live by, a day at a time. 

—Jackson 


[See also Perseverance .] 


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Patriotism 

Our country is the common parent of all. — Cicero 

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes 
and our sacred honor. — Jefferson 

The man who loves home best, and loves it most un¬ 
selfishly, loves his country best. — Holland 

It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country. 

—Horace 

I love my country’s good, with a respect more tender, 
more holy and profound than my own life. 

—Shakespeare 

Be just, and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at be 
thy country’s, thy God’s and Truth’s. — Shakespeare 

After what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear 
or more sacred than the love and respect I owe to my 
country. — De Thou 

Our country’s welfare is our first concern, and who 
promotes that best, best proves his duty. — Havard 

I want a patriotism which is good every day in the year, 
and which means an understanding of public duty and a 
determination to perform that duty. — Skinner 

Ours is the only flag that has in reality written upon it, 
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”—the three grandest words 
in all the languages of men. — Ingersoll 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


- 


A man’s country is not a certain area of land, but it is 
a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. 

—Curtis 


Let our object be our country, our whole country, and 
nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, 
may that country itself become a vast and splendid monu¬ 
ment, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace 
and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with 
admiration forever. —Webster 


Liberty and union, now and forevermore, one and in¬ 
separable. —Webster 

Peace and order and security and liberty are safe so 
long as love of country burns in the hearts of the people. 

—McKinley 

The Americans have what every man worthy of the 
name of man must have—a country to live for; if need 
be, a country to die for. —Carnegie 

As an American, I maintain that international peace, 
kept in justice and honor, is an American principle and 
an American interest. —Schurz 


There are many qualities which we need alike in private 
citizen and in public man, but three above all, three for 
the lack of which no brilliancy and no genius can atone 
—and those three are courage, honesty and common sense. 

—Roosevelt 

And for your country, boy, and for that flag, never 
dream but of serving her as she bids you. —Hale 

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PATRIOTISM 


I believe in my country. I believe in it because it is 
made up of my fellow-men—and myself. I can’t go back 
on either of us and be true to my creed. If it isn’t the 
best country in the world, it is partly because I am not 
the kind of a man that I should be. —Stelzle 

We shall be the more American if we but remain true 
to the principles in which we have been bred. —Wilson 

Guard well that flag! for faith and hope and better days 

to be, 

Your flag, my flag, the people’s flag, 

The flag that makes men free! —Sherwood 

Death never comes too soon, if necessary in defence 
of the liberties of our country. —Story 

He serves his party best who serves his country best. 

—Hayes 

I only regret that I have but one life to give for my 
country. —Hale 

We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly 
we shall all hang separately. —Franklin 

The noblest motive is the public good. —Virgil 

The safety of our republic is to be found in the intel¬ 
ligence and patriotism of the common people. 

—Barrett 

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, 
and cherishes it not only as precious, but as sacred. 

—Jackson 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious per¬ 
formance of all the duties of citizenship in small matters 
as well as great, at home as well as upon the battlefield. 

—Bryan 

The Union—it must and shall be preserved. 

—Jackson 

Where the heart is right there is true patriotism. 

—Berkeley 

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no 
hatred toward any one. — Cavell 

He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. 

Citizenship has its duties as well as its privileges. 

—Harrison 

Above all, we must stand shoulder to shoulder for the 
honor and greatness of our country. — Roosevelt 

The best son of his country is he who gives the best 
manhood to his country. 

We cannot love our country with too deep a reverence; 
we cannot love her with an affection too pure and fervent; 
we cannot serve her with an energy of purpose or a faith¬ 
fulness of zeal too steadfast and ardent. — Grimke 

Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of 
home, or like honesty or courage. — Roosevelt 

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations 
may she always be in the right; but our country, right or 
wrong. — Decatur 


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PATRIOTISM 


Our country is the world—our countrymen are all man¬ 
kind. — Garrison 

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam, 

His first, best country ever is at home. 

—Goldsmith 

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 

One nation evermore. — Holmes 

Hope is the mainspring of patriotism. 

— Lloyd-George 

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweet¬ 
ness, and never allows us to forget that we belong to it. 

—Ovid 

The whole earth is the brave man’s country. — Ovid 

Our country, right or wrong! when right, to be kept 
right; when wrong, to be put right. — Schurz 

I do love 

My country’s good with a respect more tender. 

More holy and profound, than mine own life. 

—Shakespeare 

Hang me to the yardarm of your ship, if you will, but 
do not ask me to become a traitor to my country. 

—Coffin 

The moment I heard of America, I loved her; the mo¬ 
ment I knew she was fighting for freedom, I burnt with 
a desire of bleeding for her; and the fnoment I shall be 
able to serve her at any time or in any part of the world, 
will be the happiest one of my life. — Lafayette 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


We give our heads and our hearts to God and our coun¬ 
try. One Country, one language, one flag. 

Where liberty is, there is my country. —Sidney 

Let little hands bring blossoms sweet, 

To brave men lying low; 

Let little hearts to soldiers dead 
Their love and honor show. 

We’ll love the flag they loved so well. 

The dear old banner bright, 

We’ll love the land for which they fell, 

With soul and strength and might! —Kneil 

Patriotism must be founded on great principles and 
supported by great virtue. —Bolingbroke 

A good citizen owes his life to his country. 

—Russian 

[See also Bravery, Courage, Loyalty. ] 


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Peace 


Peace is the happy, natural state of man. — Thomson 

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the 
soul. — Fenelon 

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to 
seek it from outward sources. — La Rochefoucauld 

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. — Schiller 

The more quietly and peaceably we all get on, the bet¬ 
ter; the better for ourselves, the better for our neighbors. 

—Patrick 

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can 
bring you peace but the triumph of principles. 

—Emerson 

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war. 

—Milton 

Peace is the fairest form of happiness. — Channing 

Peace is the masterpiece of reason. — Muller 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be. called 
the children of God. — The Bible 

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace. 

—Bailey 

The goodness of heart is shown in deeds of peaceful¬ 
ness and kindness. — Bailey 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their 
spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 

—The Bible 

Of Peace! thou source and soul of social life; 
Beneath whose calm, inspiring influence, 

Science his views enlarges, Art refines, 

And swelling commerce opens all her ports; 

Blessed be the man divine, who gives us thee! 

Like the rainbow, peace rests in heaven, but its arch is 
lost in heaven. —Colton 

A time will come when the science of destruction shall 
bend before the arts of peace. —Arago 

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. 

—Shaw 


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Perseverance 


Perseverance and audacity generally win. — Deluzy 

Great works are performed not by strength but by per¬ 
severance. —Johnson 

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is 
for want of application, rather than of means, that men 
fail of success. — La Rochefoucauld 

After a bad harvest, sow again. — Latin 

He that stays in the valley will never get over the hill. 

If you can’t fly, crawl. 

If you can’t get it in bushels, take it in spoonfuls. 

—German 

Like a postage stamp, a man’s value depends on his 
ability to stick to a thing till he gets there. 

—Chamberlain 

Nine-storied terraces rise by a gradual accumulation of 
bricks. — Chinese 

Perseverance brings success. — Dutch 

Step by step the ladder is ascended. 

There is nothing difficult in the world; the only fear is 
that men will lack perseverance. — Confucius 

With perseverance one surmounts all difficulties. 

—Greek 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble; many 
strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. — Lyly 

’Tis perseverance that prevails. 

Whatever has been attained is attainable. — Jones 

When you have set yourself a task, finish it. — Ovid 

When you cannot climb over, you must creep under. 

Who does not tire achieves. — Spanish 

Step by step one goes far. — Italian, Dutch 

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; 

Nothing’s so hard, but search will find it out. 

—Herrick 

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by 
constant falling. 

An oak is not felled at one blow. — Spanish 

By slow degrees the bird builds its nest. — Dutch 

We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. 

—Rossetti 

In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable. 

—German 

I hold it truth with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tone, 

That men may rise on stepping stones 
Of their dead selves to higher things. 

—Tennyson 

Perseverance is a crowning quality of great hearts. 

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PERSEVERANCE 

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. —Heywood 

Everything comes to him who tries hard enough. 

If you don’t give up too soon you’re bound to get what 
you go after, no matter if the whole world says you can’t 
do it. —Ruth 

God is with those who persevere. —The Koran 

Many strokes, though with a little axe, 

Hew down and fell the hardest timber’d oak. 

—Shakespeare 

Perseverance keeps honour bright. —Shakespeare 

’Tis a lesson you should heed, 

Try, try, again; 

If at first you don’t succeed, 

Try, try, again; 

Then your courage should appear. 

For, if you will persevere, 

You will conquer, never fear, 

Try, try, again. 

The fisher who draws in his net too soon, 

Won’t have any fish to sell; 

The child who shuts up his book too soon, 

Won’t learn any lesson well. 

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness de¬ 
pends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets 
there. —Billings 

Victory belongs to the most persevering. 

—Napoleon 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

Those who would attain to any marked degree of ex¬ 
cellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard 
for it, prince or peasant. — Taylor 

Not enjoyment and not sorrow 
Is our destined end or way; 

But to act that each to-morrow 
Finds us farther than to-day. 

—Longfellow 

Press on! a better fate awaits thee. — Hugo 

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. 

—Montgomery 

Every noble work is at first impossible.* — Carlyle 

Whoever perseveres will be crowned. — Herder 

A falling drop at last will carve a stone. — Lucretius 

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize. — Milnes 

Nothing is so hard but search will find it out. 

—Herrick 

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. 

—Johnson 

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, 
all things are attainable. — Buxton 

The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the 
noblest virtues. — Magoon 

There are two ways of attaining an important end— 
force and perseverance. — Swetchine 


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PERSEVERANCE 


The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have 
but to toil a while, endure a while, believe always, and 
never turn back. —Simms 

Persistent people begin their success where others end in 
failure. —Eggleston 

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold onto his 
calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will 
come at last. —McCune 

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, 
and all things in succession. That which grows slowly 
endures. —Holland 

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to 
poverty the world’s wealth. It spreads fertility over the 
barren landscape, and bids the choicest fruits and flowers 
spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and 
briers. —Goodrich 

Persistent people begin their success where others end 
in failure. —Eggleston 

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work 
twenty times upon the anvil. —Soileau 


[See also Patience. ] 


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Politeness 


A kind heart is the first essential of true politeness. 

A polite man is one who listens with interest to things 
he knows all about, when they are told him by a person 
who knows nothing about them. — De Morny 

The wise are polite all the world over. — Bacon 

Politeness smooth wrinkles. — Joubert 

Politeness costs nothing and gains everything. 

—Montagu 

Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed. 

—Witherspoon 

True politeness is the expression of good will and kind¬ 
ness. — Beecher 

The only true source of politeness is consideration for 
others. — Simms 

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of 
others. — Smiles 

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. — Smiles 

To be truly polite, remember you must be polite at all 
times and under all circumstances. 

True politeness consists in treating others just as you 
love to be treated yourself. — Chesterfield 

True politeness is kindness of heart. 

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POLITENESS 

It is a part of good breeding that a man should be polite 
even to himself. — Richter 

Truly polite is always polite. 

A civil denial is better than a rude grant. 

Politeness is to goodness what words are to thoughts. 

—Jouhert 

The truest politeness comes of sincerity. — Smiles 

Politeness costs little and yields much. 

— Mme. De Lambert 

Politeness is the flower of humanity. — Joubert 

Politeness is a wreath of flowers that adorns the world. 

— Mme. De Bassanville 

Politeness is better than logic; you can often persuade 
when you cannot convince. — Shaw 

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as polite¬ 
ness and none more profitable. — Shaw 

Politeness is the art of rendering to every one, without 
effort, that which is socially his due. — French 

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so 
does politeness before man. — Greville 

Be polite to everybody. 

Be as polite to your parents, brothers and sisters as 
you are to strangers. 

Nothing was ever lost by politeness. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Politeness consists in due regard for the rights and 
feelings of others. 

Politeness is to do and say 

The kindest thing in the kindest way. 

Politeness should begin at home. 

Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing 
in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully. 

Politeness is but kind feeling toward others, acted out 
in our intercourse with them. We are always polite to 
those we respect and esteem. 

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some 
good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. 

—Chesterfield 

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. 

—Goldsmith 

There is no policy like politeness, since a good manner 
often succeeds when the best tongue has failed. 

—Magoon 

[See also Courtesy , Manners , Politenessf] 


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Promptness 

Lost time is never found again, and what we call time 
enough, always proves little enough. —Franklin 

He that comes first may sit where he will. 

Time is always on the wing, 

You can never stop its flight; 

Then do at once your little task; 

Happier you will be at night. 

Always be punctual at the time appointed. 

Better be an hour early than a minute too late. 

Better late than never, but better still, never late. 

Punctuality is the soul of business. 

We should be punctual in performing every duty. 

Be prompt in all things. 

It is what we do that counts, not what we intend to do. 

Half the value of anything to be done consists in doing 
it promptly. 

To be always intending to live a new life, but never 
to find time to set about it—this is as if a man should 
put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day 
and night to another till he is starved and destroyed. 

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion. —More 

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of 
prudence. —Lavater 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. 

—Macdonald 

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy 
every moment of it; never put off till to-morrow what you 
can do to-day. — Chesterfield 

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main 
point. — La Fontaine 

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my 
time, and it has made a man of me. — Nelson 

Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue. — Franklin 

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an 
act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a per¬ 
son’s money as his time. — Mann 

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowl¬ 
edge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but 
lost time is gone forever. — Smiles 

The individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an 
appointment will never be respected or successful in life. 

—Fisk 

I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or 
moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his ap¬ 
pointment. — Simmons 


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Rules of Conduct 

A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its 
place. 

Behave toward every one as if receiving a great guest. 

—Confucius 

Civility costs nothing. 

Civility is the result of good nature and good sense. 

Come not near the books or writings of any one so as 
to read them unasked. —Washington 

Don’t bluntly contradict any one. 

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of 
respect to those present. —Washington 

Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding. 

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who 
plants kindness gathers love. 

In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than too little. 

It is not discourteous to refuse to do wrong. 

Manners often make fortunes. 

Men, like bullets, go furthest when polished. 

—Richter 

Never deny your assistance, nor ever do anybody any 
hurt. 

Never be weary of well doing. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

Never mourn over the past nor mope over the future. 

Never do anything of which you are ashamed. 

Never make a mountain out of a mole hill. 

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 

—Jones 

Never repent a good action. 

Obliging conduct procures deserved esteem. 

[See also Courtesy , Manners , Politeness .] 


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Self-Control 

Conquer thyself. Until thou hast done this, thou art 
but a slave. — Burton 

To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praise¬ 
worthy because so few know how to do it.— Guicciardini 

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. 

—Seneca 

Those who can command themselves, command others. 

—Hazlitt 

No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue 
himself. — Thomas a Kempis 

No one who cannot master himself is worthy to rule, 
and only he can rule. — Goethe 

I will be lord over myself. — Goethe 

Self-control is only courage under another form. 

—Smiles 

He overcomes a stout enemy that overcomes his own 
anger. — Chilo 

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. 

—Thomson 

No man is such a conquerer as the man who has de¬ 
feated himself. — Beecher 

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, de¬ 
sires and fear, is more than a king. — Milton 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds him¬ 
self, loses his misery. —Arnold 

I will govern my life and my thoughts, as if the whole 
world were to see the one, and to read the other. 

—Seneca 

I will control my tongue, and will not allow it to speak 
mean, vulgar or profane words. I will control my temper 
and will not get angry when people or things displease me. 
I will control my thoughts, and will not allow a foolish 
wish to spoil a wise purpose. 

— Hutchins 9 Law of Self-Control 

Those who best control themselves can best serve their 
country. 

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and 
he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. 

—The Bible 

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city 
that is broken down, and without walls. 

How happy is he born or taught, 

Whose passions not his master are; 

Lord of himself, though not of lands, 

And having nothing, yet hath all. —Wolton 

Beware of no man more than thyself. 

Govern thyself and thou wilt be able to govern the 
world. —Chinese 

Greater is he who conquers himself than he who con¬ 
quers a thousand. —Buddha 


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SELF-CONTROL 


He that is master of himself will soon be master of 
others. 

He is most powerful who has himself in his power. 

—Seneca 

It is no small conquest to overcome yourself. 

Keep cool and you command everybody. — St. Just 

Know prudent, cautious, self-control is wisdom’s root. 

—Burns 

No man is free who cannot command himself. 

—Epictetus 

Self-control is the greatest of victories. —Plato 

The noblest task is to command one’s self. —Maga 

We carry our greatest enemies within us. 

Who cannot rule himself can never rule a state. 

Who restraineth himself in the use of things lawful will 
never encroach on things forbidden. —Johnson 


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Service 

He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages. 
They also serve who only stand and wait. — Milton 

Small service is true service while it lasts. 

—Wordsworth 

So let each try to be helpful and kind; 

. ’Tis the way to be happy, we’ll every one find. 

If you serve me, and I serve you, 

And we serve some one else in need, 

Then, don’t you see, it’s very true, 

This world would soon grow bright indeed. 

—Morton 

Who seeks for aid 

Must show how service sought can be repaid. 

—Meredith 

They serve God well, 

Who serve His creatures. — Norton 

Men and things are only valuable as they are serv¬ 
iceable. 

He who serves many masters must neglect some. 

—Spanish 

He who will not serve one master must needs serve 
many. — Italian 

If you wish to be well served, serve yourself. 

—Spanish 

[See also Helpfulness, Usefulness .] 

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Success 

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your 
bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution 
your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. 

—Addison 

Success treads on the heels of every right effort. 

—Smiles 

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what 
you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without 
a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because 
it is deserved, not because it is sought after. 

—Longfellow 

The secret of success lies in embracing every oppor¬ 
tunity. —Wellington 

Success is a fruit of slow growth. —Fielding 

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but 
in never making the same one the second time. —Shaw 

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, 
try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible 
adopt his system. —Disraeli 

The path of success in business is the path of common 
sense. —Smiles 

Success is by acting, not wishing. 

The first element of success is the determination to 
succeed. 


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The way to make ourselves admired is to be what we 
expect to be thought. — Socrates 

Success is the child of audacity. — Disraeli 

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. 

—Disraeli 

When fortune opens one door she generally opens 
another. — German 

Who would win must learn to bear. — German 

If you want to know whether you are destined to be a 
success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The 
test is simple. Are you able to save money? If not, drop 
out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose, 
as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you. 

—Hill 

Keep adding little to little, and soon there will be a 

great heap. — Virgil 

There are three kinds of people in the world—the wills, 
the won’ts and the can’ts. The first accomplish everything, 
the second oppose everything, and the third fail in every¬ 
thing. — Jackson 

The great secret of success in life is to be ready when 
your opportunity comes. — Disraeli 

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to 
succeed. — Roosevelt 

The genius of success is still the genius of labor. 

—Garfield 


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SUCCESS 


Though the world smile on you blandly, 

Let your friends be choice and few; 

Choose your course, pursue it grandly, 

And achieve what you pursue. 

Be it jewel or toy, 

Not the prize gives the joy 

But the striving to win the prize. —Caxton 

Hast thou not learn’d what thou art often told, 

A truth still sacred, and believed of old, 

That no success attends on spears and swords 
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord’s ?—Cowper 

One never rises so high as when one does not know 
where one is going. —Cromwell 

Somebody said it couldn’t be done, 

But he with a chuckle replied 
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one 
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. 

So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin 
On his face. If he worried, he hid it; 

He started to sing as he tackled the thing 

That couldn’t be done, and he did it. —Guest 

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that 
affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. 

—Guicciardini 

There are but two ways of rising in the world; either 
by one’s own industry, or profiting by the foolishness of 
others. —La Bruyere 

Attain the unattainable. —Tennyson 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


There is no greater obstacle in the way of success in life 
than waiting for something to turn up, instead of going 
steadily to work and turning up something. 

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart 
Availeth not without a timely start. 

—La Fontaine 

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. 

—Ovid 

The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to beat 
in the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged. 

—Ovid 

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. 

—Scott 

Didst thou never hear 

That things ill-got had ever bad success? 

—Shakespeare 

Success comes only to those who lead the life of 
endeavor. — Roosevelt 

If little labor, little are our gains, 

Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.— Herrick 

The success of most things depends upon knowing how 
long it will take to succeed. — Montesquieu 

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. 

—Dickinson 

Nothing succeeds like success. — Dumas 

Success covers a multitude of blunders. — Shaw 

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SUCCESS 


Successfully to accomplish any task, it is necessary not 
only that you should give it the best there is in you, but 
that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under 
your guidance. — Goethals 

Set yourself earnestly to see what you were made to do, 
then set yourself earnestly to do it. — Brooks 

A successful career has been full of blunders. 

—Buxton 

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. 

—De Maistre 

One thing is forever good: 

That one thing is Success. — Emerson 

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil 
over the evil deeds of men. — Demosthenes 

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. 

—Shakespeare 

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast 
of it. — Helps 

The greatest success is confidence, or perfect under¬ 
standing between sincere people. — Emerson 

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of good 
fortune. — Wallace 

Confidence of success is almost success. — Moir 

They conquer who believe they can. — Virgil 

Life lives only in success. — Taylor 

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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. 

—Sheridan 

Success brings many to ruin. —Phcedrus 

Success has many friends. —Greek 

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven- 
leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit— 
that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that 
is the way to glory. —Buxton 

Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that all success 
worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct. 

—Field 

To become an able and successful man in any profes¬ 
sion, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. 

Deserve success, and you shall command it. 

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or 
opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. 

—Wendte 


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Sympathy 

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not 
my weakness. — Alcott 

Another man’s burden is always light. -— Danish 

Speak words of sympathy to those who suffer. 

Pity and need make all flesh kin. — Arnold 

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy 
and likeness. — Emerson 

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary line 
between joy and sorrow. — Hare 

We pine for kindred natures 
To mingle with our own. — Hemans 

Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow 
For other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.— Homer 

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the 
human heart. — Burke 

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should 
learn. — Talfourd 

Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it 
lightly. — Hauff 

The only true knowledge of our fellow man is that which 
enables us to feel with him. — Eliot 

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. 

—Parkhurst 


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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple 
human pity that will not forsake us. —Eliot 

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all 
human sympathy turns. —Hay don 

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of 
others. —Smiles 

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of 
practical life. —Chapin 

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another’s place. 

—Ballou 

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his 
joy. —Taylor 

There is one thing without which life becomes a burden, 
that is human sympathy. —Farrar 

Let us cherish sympathy. By attention and exercise it 
may be improved in every man. —Beattie 


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Thankfulness 

There is no benefit so small that a good man will not 
magnify it. —Seneca 

Words are but empty thanks. —Cibber 

Some hae meat and canna eat, 

And some would eat that want it; 

But we hae meat and we can eat, 

Sae let the Lord be thankit. —Burns 

When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough; 
I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more .—Fielding 

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. 

—Macdonald 


Your bounty is beyond my speaking; 

But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. 

—Rowe 

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is 
To have a thankless child! —Shakespeare 

From too much love of living, 

From hope and fear set free, 

We thank with brief thanksgiving 
Whatever gods may be, 

That no life lives forever, 

That dead men rise up never, 

That even the weariest river 
Winds somewhere safe to sea. 

—Swinburne 


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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the 
parent of all the other virtues. —Cicero 

Let never day nor night unhallow’d pass, 

But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

—Shakespeare 

Thanks is the poor man’s money. 

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the 
soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. 

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the 
soil out of which thanks naturally grow. —Beecher 

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 

—Shakespeare 

Our whole life should speak forth our thankfulness. 

—Libbes 


[See also Gratitude .] 


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Thrift 

A man without thought for the future must soon have 
present sorrow. — Confucius 

A fool may make money, but it requires a wise man to 
spend it. 

A man’s voluntary expense should not exceed his 
income. — Johnson 

Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy. — Scotch 

A spendthrift in youth, a poor man in old age. 

—Herbert 

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a 
great ship. — Franklin 

Economy is a great revenue. — Cicero 

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to 
earn money as to spend it well. 

Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse. 

—Seneca 

Frugality is the mother of all virtues. — Latin 

He that will not economize will have to agonize. 

—Confucius 

He who takes no care of little things will not have the 
care of great ones. — German 

It is petty expenses that empty the purse. — 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

Spend not when you may save, spare not when you must 
spend. 

Take care of the small sums and the large will take care 
of themselves. 

Taking out without putting in soon comes to the bottom. 

— Spanish , Portuguese 

Never buy what you do not need even if it is cheap. 

One’s never rich until he commences 
To keep ahead of his expenses. 

Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly to your 
purse and you will take no harm. —Danish 

No boy ever became great as a man who did not in his 
youth learn to save money. —Wanamaker 

The sole sign of a man being in his senses 
Is learning to reduce his past expenses. —Byron 

To live according to one’s means is honorable; not to 
do so is dishonorable. 

What you do not need is dear at any price. 

Who gets, doth much; who keeps, doth more. 

I have often been asked to define the short secret of 
success. It is thrift in all its phases, and especially thrift 
as applied to saving. Saving is the first great principle 
of success. It creates independence. It gives a young man 
standing, fills him with vigor; it stimulates him with 
proper energy; in fact, it brings to him the best part of 
any success—happiness and contentment. —Lipton 

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THRIFT 


If the young man ever expects to succeed in business 
he must be economical. No matter how small the sum the 
boy or young man is receiving, he should always save a 
portion of his income. — Bulwer-Lytton 

Save and teach all ye are interested in to save; this 
paves the way for moral and material success. 

—Jefferson 

Luck means rising at six in the morning, living on a 
dollar a day if you earn two, minding your own business 
and not meddling with other people. — O’Rell 

Spare well and spend well. 

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it 
chiefly depends on two words, industry and frugality. 

—Franklin 

The things we do to-day may seem to be lost, but in the 
great financial revealing the smallest of them will appear 
great. —Lowell 

Have you ever considered that if you are spending all 
of your money as it comes to you, week by week or month 
by month, you are working in a treadmill? At the end 
of the month you are no nearer the end of your ambitions 
than you were at the beginning. —Jayne 

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. 

—Franklin 

There are no fragments so precious as those of time, 
and none so heedlessly lost by people who cannot make a 
moment, and yet can waste years. —Montgomery 

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GOODLY COMPANY 

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as 
getting. —Franklin 

Waste, not, want not, be your motto, 

Little things bring weal or woe; 

Save the odds and ends, my children, 

Some one wants them, if not you. —Miller 


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Trust 

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them 
greatly, and they will show themselves great .—Emerson 

Build a little fence of trust 
Around to-day; 

Fill the space with loving work, 

And therein stay; 

Look not through the sheltering bars 
Upon to-morrow; 

God will help thee bear what comes 

Of joy or sorrow. —Butts 

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of 
giving counsel. —Bacon 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. 

—Macdonald 

I well believe 

Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; 

And so far will I trust thee. —Shakespeare 

Be just to all but trust not all. 

Between trust and distrust lies the safe road. 

He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be 
deceived. —Rambler 

He who trusteth not is not deceived. 

If you trust before you try, 

You may repent before you die. 

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GOODLY COMPANY 


It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust 
nobody. 

It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. 

—Rambler 


Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 

—Shakespeare 

A boy who can be trusted 
Makes his will so strong 
That when a man, he finds the right 
Much easier than the wrong. 

Never trust to fine promises. 

Sudden trusts bring sudden repentance. 

Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 

Trust not him that hath once broken faith. 

—Shakespeare 

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. 

Trusting too much to others is the ruin of many. 

“Trust” was a good man, “Trust Not” was a better. 

We live by reposing trust in each other. —Pliny 

I know not where His islands lift 
Their fronded palms in air; 

I only know I cannot drift 

Beyond His love and care. —Whittier 

The soul and spirit that keeps up society is mutual trust. 

—South 


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TRUST 


The leaves are fading and falling, 

The winds are rough and wild; 

The birds have ceased their calling, 

But let me tell you, my child, 

Though day by day, as it closes, 

Doth darker and colder grow, 

The roots of the bright red roses 

Will keep alive in the snow. —Cary 

The man who trusty men will make fewer mistakes than 
he who distrusts them. —Cavour 

We trust as we love, and where we love. —Brooks 

Public office is a public trust, the authority and oppor¬ 
tunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public 
moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of 
an individual or party. —Eaton 


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Truth 


Be the matter what it may, 

Always speak the truth, 

If at work or if at play, 

Always speak the truth. 

If a man is sincere he will seek earnestly for the truth. 

—Thomas a Kempis 

No man who loves applause more than the truth will add 
much to the world’s progress. — Bulwer-Lytton 

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. 

—B ulwer-Lytton 

Search all things, hold fast that which is true. 

Sooner or later the truth comes to light. 

Tell the truth and shame the devil. — Shakespeare 

The truth is always the stronger argument. 

—Sophocles 

The truth itself is not believed 
From one who often has deceived. 

The truth will out. 

Think the truth, speak the truth, act the truth. 

Endless is the search of truth. — Sterne 

The expression of truth is simplicity. — Seneca 

Truthfulness is the root of all the charities. 

—Dewey 


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TRUTH 

Truthfulness is the highest thing that man may keep. 

—Chaucer 

To truth belongs freedom. — Richter 

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. 

—Malesherbes 

An honest man speaks the truth. — Hazlitt 

All men naturally have some love of truth. 

Be true to your word, your work, and your friend. 

— O'Reilly 

Our minds possess by nature a desire to know the truth. 

—Cicero 

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. 

—Menander 

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. 

—Nietzsche 

Time discovers truth. — Seneca 

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the 
chief power of honest men. — Madame de Stael 

It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and another 
to hear. — Thoreau 

There is nothing so powerful as truth; and often noth¬ 
ing so strong. — Webster 

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, 

When first we practice to deceive! — Scott 

- Sacrifice life to truth. — Rousseau 


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GOODLY COMPANY 

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. 

—Disraeli 

Truth and oil always come to the surface. — Spanish 

Truth conquers all things. — Latin 

Truth crushed to earth will rise again. 

The eternal years of God are hers; 

But error, wounded, writhes in pain, 

And dies among his worshipers. — Bryant 

Truth is always straightforward. — Sophocles 

Truth is honest, truth is sure; 

Truth is strong and must endure. 

Truth may be suppressed but not strangled.— German 

Truth may languish but can never perish. — Italian 

Truth never perishes. — Seneca 

Without truth there can be no other virtue. 

A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. 

—Italian 

Above all things always speak the truth.— Haliburton 
All is not true that is told. — Johnson 

Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. 

—Danish 

A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime 
of cowards. — Johnson 

Every truth is not to be told. 

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—Italian 


TRUTH 


Truth can always stand alone, regardless of the 
opposition. 

A clear, truthful mind will reflect truth in words and 
deeds, naturally and without being urged to do so. 

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the 
vantage ground of truth. —Bacon 

Be you tempted as you may, 

Each day and every day 
Speak what is true. 

True things in great and small; 

Then, though the sky should fall, 

Sun, moon, and stars and all, 

Heaven should show through. —Cary 

Lie not one to another. —The Bible 

Better be cheated to the last, 

Than lose the blessed hope of truth. —Butler 

Think truly, and thy thoughts 
Shall the world’s famine feed. 

Speak truly, and each word of thine 
Shall be a fruitful seed. 

Live truly, and thy life shall be 

A great and noble creed. —Bonar 

A man protesting against error is on the way towards 
uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. 

—Carlyle 

Above all things, truth beareth away the victory. 

—Esdras 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


The opposite of what is noised about concerning men 
and things is often the truth. — La Bruyere 

Truth, like a torch, the more ’tis shook, it shines. 

—Hamilton 

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a 
touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, 
and it will be round and full at evening. — Holmes 

It is said that truth is often eclipsed but never extin¬ 
guished. — Livy 

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of 
human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all 
other virtues. — Locke 

Get but the truth once uttered, and ’tis like 
A star new-born that drops into its place 
And which, once circling in its placid round, 

Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. 

—Lowell 

Truth is often attended with danger. — Marcellinus 

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I 
dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older. 

—Montaigne 

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by 
the heart. — Pascal 

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay.— Tacitus 

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and 
another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth. 

—WLately 


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TRUTH 


Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if not 
firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot 
in the foundation. 

Truth never was indebted to a lie. — Young 

In your minds think the truth; 

In your hearts love the truth; 

In your lives live the truth. 

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in 
heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and 
happy should be from the first a partaker of the truth, 
that he may live a true man as long as possible, for then 
he can be trusted. — Plato 

The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. 

—Emerson 

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in 
the world, and when they both go together they cannot 
easily be withstood. — Cudworth 

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live 
is truth. ' — Emerson 

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world. 

—Shaftesbury 

Truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress. 

—Curran 

Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth 
you need to know. — Macdonald 

Truth only asks a fair chance; if it cannot conquer 
then, it is not truth. — Wayland 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have 
a right to know it all. But let all you tell be the truth. 

—Mann 

Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. 

—Gerrald 

Truth is always found when it is honestly sought. 

—Johnson 

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is 
lovely. — Boileau 

If circumstances lead me, I will find where truth is hid, 
though' it were hid indeed within the center. 

—Shakespeare 

The firmest and noblest ground on which people can 
live is truth. — Emerson 

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves. 

—Muller 

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult 
to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it. 

—Mencius 

Between wrangling and disputing, truth is lost. 

—German 

Buy the truth and sell it not. — The Bible 

Great is the truth, and mighty above all things. 

—The Bible 

He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it. 

—Latin 


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TRUTH 


Truth is above everything else, though truth is not 
always agreeable. — Andersen 

In too much disputing truth is lost. — French 

It takes a good many shovelfuls of earth to bury the 
truth. — German 

No crime is more infamous than the violation of truth. 

—Johnson 

Nothing is more delightful than the light of truth. 

—Cicero 

Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out. 

Truth gives a short answer; lies go round about. 

—German 

Truth gives wings to strength. 

—Motto of Earl of Belvedere 

Truth is a means, not an end. 

Truth is better than gold. — Arabian 

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the 
cement of all societies. — Dryden 

Truth is truth to the end of the reckoning. 

—Shakespeare 

Truth never fears investigation. 

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. 

—Marcellinus 


It is the judge’s duty in all trials to follow the truth. 

—Cicero 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me; 
I hate a liar. —Plautus 

The usefulest truths are the plainest. 

Truth is mighty and will prevail. —Brooks 

While we are examining into everything we sometimes 
find truth where we least expect it. —Quintilian 

Truth lies wrapped up and hidden in the depths. 

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; 

A fault which needs it most, grows to two thereby. 

—Herbert 


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Usefulness 

God be thanked that the dead have left still 
Good undone for the living to do. — Meredith 

Be useful where thou livest, that they may 
Both want and wish thy pleasing presence still. 

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden 
of another. — Dickens 

Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. 

—Brodie 

There is but one virtue—the eternal sacrifice of self. 

—Sand 

Think that day lost, whose low descending sun, 
Views from thy hand no worthy action done. 

The useful and the beautiful are never separated. 

—Periander 

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a 
man’s life. — Sidney 

All the good things of this world are no further good 
than as they are of use. — Defoe 

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in 
my day and generation. — Ballou 

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, 

But to the earth some special good doth give. 

—Shakespeare 

Study to be useful. 


[See also Helpfulness , Service .] 
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Work 


One thing each time and that done well, 

Is a very good rule, as many can tell; 

Moments are useless, trifled away; 

So work while you work and play while you play. 

—Stoddart 


One by one thy duties wait thee— 

Let thy whole strength go to each; 

Let no future dreams elate thee, 

Learn thou first what these can teach. 

—Proctor 

Labor, if it were not necessary to the existence, would 
be indispensable to the happiness of man. —Johnson 

Labor is preferable to idleness as brightness to rust. 

—Plato 

Labor rids us of three great evils: tediousness, vice and 
poverty. 

To labor is the lot of man below. —Homer 

By labor fire is got out of a stone. —Dutch 

He that by the plough would thrive 
Himself must either hold or drive. —Franklin 

The result tests the work. —Washington 

A work ill done must be twice done. 

Work, and the health to do it, are the greatest blessings 
God gives to mankind. —Pearley 


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WORK 


Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how 
much you may be hindered‘to-morrow. 

Whatever work comes to your hand, 

Do your best with right good will. 

If little labor, little are our gains; 

Man’s fortunes are according to his pains. 

—Herrick 

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, 
neither should he eat. —The Bible 

Never you mind the crowd, lad, 

Nor fancy your life won’t tell; 

The work is done for all that, 

To him who doeth it well. 

We must labor for all that we have, and nothing is 
worth possessing or offering to others, which costs us 
nothing. —Todd 

The law of nature is that a certain quantity of work is 
necessary to produce a certain quantity of good of any kind 
whatever. —Ruskin 

Never mind where you work; let your care be for the 
work itself. —Spurgeon 

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and 
sleeping. —Humboldt 

Blessed is the man that has found his work. 

—Carlyle 

Application to work is the healthiest training for every 
individual. —Smiles 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens 
to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. — Jay 

A work well begun is half ended. — Plato 

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers. — Collyer 

We live not to ourselves, our work is life. — Bailey 

Nothing is impossible to industry. — Periander 

Joy to the Toiler! him that tills 
The fields with Plenty crowned; 

Him with the woodman’s axe that thrills 

The wilderness profound. — Hathaway 

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers; 

Time hath his work to do, and we have ours. 

—Emerson 

Patience, persistence and power to do are only ac¬ 
quired by work. — Holland 

It is our actual work which determines our value. 

—Bancroft 

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out 
what kind of work he is to do in this universe. 

—Carlyle 

Work, and your house will be duly fed: 

Work, and rest shall be won; 

I hold that a man had better be dead 

Than alive when his work is done. — Cary 

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. 

—The Bible 


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We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our doing; and 
our best doing is our best enjoyment. — Jacobi 

Work thou for pleasure—paint or sing, or carve 

The thing thou lovest, though the body starve— 

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; 

Who works for money coins his very soul. 

Work for the work’s sake, then, and it may be 

That these things shall be added unto thee. — Cox 

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may al¬ 
ways find you employed. — St. Jerome 

Unless a man works, he cannot find out what he is able 
to do. — Hamer ton 

God be thank’d that the dead have left still 
Good undone for the living to do— 

Still some aim for the heart and the will 
And the soul of a man to pursue. — Meredith 

Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed. 

—Milton 

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, 
and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s 
repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or plough¬ 
man. — Shaw 

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of 
earth is toil. — Van Dyke 

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. 

—V auvenargues 

Work is often the father of pleasure. — Voltaire 
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He never wrought a good day’s work who went grum¬ 
bling about it. 

Work produces virtue, and virtue honor. —German 

Work while you work, play while you play; 

This is the way to be cheerful and gay. 

All that you do, do with your might; 

Things done by halves are never done right. 

—Stoddart 

A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 

At the working man’s house hunger looks in but does 
not enter. —Franklin 

Diligent work makes a skilful workman. 

Trouble springs from idleness. —Franklin 

A drone is one who does not labor. —Disraeli 

Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; 

Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; 

Labor, all labor, is noble and holy. —Osgood 

Let labor, then, look up and see 
His craft no pith of honor lacks; 

The soldier’s rifle yet shall be 

Less honored than the woodman’s axe. 

Let us then be up and doing, 

With a heart for any fate; 

Still achieving, still pursuing, 

Learn to labor and to wait. 

—Longfellow 


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WORK 


There is always hope in a man that actually and earnest¬ 
ly works. — Carlyle 

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. 

—Franklin 

The heights by great men reached and kept 
Were not attained by sudden flight; 

But they, while their companions slept, 

Were toiling upward through the night. 

—Longfellow 

Make believe your work is play 
And strive with all your might; 

Then weariness will fly away 
And work become light. 

Nothing is gained without work. 

No man is born into the world whose work 
Is not born with him; there is always work, 

And tools to work withal, for those who will; 

And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 

—Lowell 

A wise man without work is a bee without honey. 

—German 

By the work we know the workman. — La Fontaine 

By work you get money, by talk you get knowledge. 

—Hali burton 

Constant occupation prevents temptation. — Italian 

Work is no disgrace; but the shame is not to be working. 

—Hesiod 


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It may be hard to work, but it must be harder to want. 

Do the head work before the hand work. 

He who is afraid of doing too much always does too 
little. — German 

Hard work kills few honest laboring men. 

No thoroughly occupied man was ever miserable. 

Nuts are given, but they are not cracked for us. 

—Andersen 

Reward is in doing. 

Slow work produces fine goods. 

That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain 
the longest. — Colton 

Think of ease, but work on. — Herbert 

Thrice happy they who have an occupation. — Byron 

When every man minds his own business the work is 
done. — Danish 

Work first and then rest. — Ruskin 

Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit. — German 

Work in youth is repose in age. — German 

Work is a true educator, and idleness a certain demor¬ 
alizer. 

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Index by Authors 


Addison, 26, 29, 31, 33, 34, 45, 53, 
88, 98, 106, 110, 117, 134, 144, 179 
-#Lschylus, 94, 141 
Alcott, 17, 56, 130, 185 
Alger, 92, 144 
Amiel, 57 

Andersen, 12, 203, 212 
Antonius, 87 
Arago, 162 

Aristotle, 23, 53, 70, 120, 152 
Armstrong, 132 
Arndt, 24 

Arnold, 50, 176, 185 
Auerbach, 76, 85, 132 
Aughey, 30, 45, 46, 57 
Aungerville, 17 
Aurelius, 64 
Ausonius, 64, 107 

Bacon. 14, 17, 26, 33, 48, 69, 86, 
105, 143, 168, 193, 199 
Bailey, 60, 62, 108, 110, 112, 125, 
161, 208 
Baillie, 25 
Baldwin, 36 

Ballou, 50, 76, 86, 91, 100, 140, 186, 
205 

Bampfylde, 132 
Bancroft, 69, 208 
Barrett, 152, 157 
Barrow, 19, 113, 115 
Bartol, 131 
Bartox, 148 
Basford, 92 
Beattie, 52, 186 
Beaumelle, 98 
Beaumont, 59 

Beaumont & Fletcher, 85, 99, 144 
Bedell, 48 

Beecher, 20, 44, 53, 63, 74, 82, 85, 
97, 112, 140, 168, 175, 188 
Belvedere, 203 
Bentham, 123 
Beranger, 122 


Berkeley, 101, 158 
Bernard, 21 

Bible, The, 26, 27, 28, 30, 43, 51, 
58, 60, 63, 67, 74, 104, 105, 108, 
110, 116, 118, 126, 141, 145, 151, 
161, 162, 176, 199, 202, 207, 208 
Billings, 97, 165 
Blair, 112 

Boileau, 106, 167, 202 
Bolingbroke, 160 
Bonar, 199 

Bovee, 30, 40, 100, 123, 133 
Boyle, 127 
Brainard, 133 
Brodie, 110, 205 

Brooks, 36, 60, 83, 91, 183, 195, 204 
Brougham, 50 
Browne, 15 

Browning, Mrs. E. B., 20 
Browning, Robt., 47, 61, 144, 149, 
154 

Bryan, 158 
Bryant, 134, 198 
Brydges, 138 
Buckminster, 27 
Buddha, 176 
Budgell, 70 

Bulwer-Lytton, 13, 15, 17, 25, 30, 
40, 83, 93, 96, 99, 102, 130, 135, 
191, 196 
Bunyan, 73 
Burbridge, 59 

Burke, 11, 51, 94, 111, 117, 120, 128, 
185 

Burkitt, 142 

Burns, 61, 90, 177, 187 

Burton, 95, 121, 139, 142, 144, 175 

Bushnell, 98, 153 

Butler, 199 

Butterworth, 127 

Butts, 193 

Buxton, 31, 166, 183, 184 
Byron, 12, 24, 87, 119, 132, 190, 212 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Campbell, 37, 148 
Cefcw 62 

Carlyle, 14, 18, 31, 48, 80, 85, 97, 
100, 119, 125, 133, 140, 166, 199, 
207, 208, 211 
Carnegie, 156 

Cary, 124, 125, 138, 140, 141, 195, 
199, 208 
Cato, 37, 145 
Catullus, 89 
Cavell, 158 
Cavour, 195 
Caxton, 181 
Cecil, 59 

Cervantes, 29, 33, 36, 38, 42, 95, 
105, 132, 136 
Chalmers, 86 
Chamberlain, 163 
Channing, 20, 21, 70, 110, 161 
Chapin, 38, 63, 113, 147, 186 
Chapman, 145 
Charron, 28, 77 • 

Chasles, 146 
Chateaubriand, 119, 135 
Chaucer, 197 
Cheney, 88 

Chesterfield, 128, 168, 170, 172 
Child, 28 

Chilo, 70, 101, 175 
Choate, 127 
Chrysostom, 110 
Churchill, 107, 117, 152 
Cibber, 187 

Cicero, 23, 24, 38, 52, 67, 68, 69, 
70, 78, 84, 88, 99, 100, 104, 116, 
117, 142, 155, 188, 189, 197, 203 
Civilis, 36 
Clarendon, 113 
Clarke, 38, 58 
Claudian, 92 
Claudianus, 117, 136 
Clay, 40 
Cleveland, 106 
Cobbett, 14 
Coffin, 159 
Cogan, 54 
Coleridge, 66 
Collier, 38, 78, 146 


Collyer, 59, 208 

Colton, 17, 68, 81, 100, 110,111,146, 
162, 212 

Confucius, 38, 43, 68, 108, 163, 173, 
189 

Congreve, 132 
Cook, 77 
Cooper, 39 
Corneille, 23, 92 
Cosmus, 61 
Cotton, 88 

Cowper, 89, 108, 181 
Cox, 209 
Crabbe, 19 
Cromwell, 181 
Crowquill, 112 
Cudworth, 201 
Cumberland, 115 
Curran, 201 
Curtis, 54, 92, 156 
Cuyler, 48 

Dante, 15, 35, 79 
Davenant, 43 
Davy, 94 

De Bassanville, 169 
Decatur, 158 
Defoe, 205 
De Lambert, 169 
De Lille, 71 
Deluzy, 163 
De Maistre, 148, 183 
De Morny, 168 
Demosthenes, 123, 183 
De Tacquerville, 59 
De Thou, 155 
De Wald, 112 
Denham, 19, 119 
Dewey, 196 
Dickens, 13, 205 
Dickinson, 21, 95, 182 
Diderot, 120 
Diogenes, 49 
Dischanyss, 71 

Disraeli, 17, 20, 37, 49, 52, 57, 58, 
68, 117, 146, 148, 149, 179, 180, 
198, 210 
Dollinger, 139 


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INDEX BY AUTHORS 


Dryden, 23, 24, 38, 39, 60, 61, 84, 
85, 86, 203 
Dumas, 182 
Duncan, 75 
Dunning, 146 

Eaton, 195 

Ebner-Eschenbach, 121, 147, 153 
Edwards, 54, 86, 87, 109, 130 
Eggleston, 167 

Eliot, 14, 44, 47, 71, 73, 135, 150, 
185, 186 

Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania, 45 
Ellis, 98 

Emerson, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 32, 
35, 38, 39, 40, 44, 61, 65, 66, 69, 
79, 80, 97, 98, 113, 117, 119, 128, 
129, 130, 131, 140, 141, 148, 161, 
183, 185, 193, 201, 202, 208 
Emmons, 86, 115 135 
English, 14 
Epictetus, 119, 177 
Erasmus, 28, 85, 111 
Esdras, 199 
Euripides, 71, 94 
Everett, 20, 52 

Faber, 122 
Farrar, 98, 138, 186 
Feltham, 57, 99 
Felton, 51 
Fenelon, 146, 161 
Fichte, 92 
Field, 119, 184 
Fielding, 69, 179, 187 
Fields, 41 
Fisk, 172 
Flavel, 109 
Fontenelle, 89 

Franklin, 36, 42, 43, 51, 53, 67, 77, 
82, 100, 101, 103, 110, 112, 114, 
115, 120, 140, 148, 157, 171, 172, 
189, 191, 192, 206, 210, 211 
French, 69, 169 
Froude, 35, 117 
Fuller, 20, 66, 72 

Garfield, 50, 98, 180 
Garrison, 159 


Gay, 23, 49, 65, 66, 67, 114, 115 

George, 118 

Gerrald, 202 

Gibbon, 36. 52 

Giles, 70, 82, 86, 142 

Gilpin, 126 

Gladden, 46 

Gladstone, 119 

Gleim, 147 

Godwin, 31 

Goethals, 183 

Goethe, 47, 48, 89, 93, 112, 120, 
126, 128, 136, 145, 175 
Goldoni, 137 

Goldsmith, 29, 73, 75, 115, 127, 159, 
170 

Good, 89 
Goodrich, 38, 167 
Granville, 28 
Green, 15 
Greville, 35, 169 
Grimke, 158 
Guest, 181 
Guicciardini, 181 
Guthrie, 58, 59 

Habington, 92 

Hale, 94, 101, 136, 156, 157 

Haliburton, 30, 198, 211 

Hall, 81, 152 

Hamerton, 93, 209 

Hamilton, 145, 153, 200 

Hare, 20, 39, 71, 140, 185 

Harrison, 158 

Hathaway, 208 

Hauff, 185 

Havard, 155 

Hawthorne, 74, 87 

Haydon, 46, 186 

Hayes, 157 

Hazlitt, 16, 56, 78, 79, 85, 99, 112, 
175, 197 
Heine, 83 
Helps, 122, 183 
Hemans, 185 
Henry, 56, 82 
Heraclitus, 59 


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GOODLY COMPANY 


Herbert, 12, 29, 33, 62, 63, 77, 189, 
204, 212 
Herder, 166 

Herrick, 164, 166, 182, 207 

Hesiod, 211 

Heywood, 165 

Higgins, 11 

Hill, 37, 45, 180 

Hillard, 82 

Hitchcock, 81, 83 

Hitopadesa, 50, 65 

Holland, 57, 148, 150, 155, 167, 208 

Holmes, 52, 95, 159, 200 

Homer, 24, 94, 138, 151, 185, 206 

Hood, 20 

Hooper, 44 

Hopkins, 153 

Hoppin, 81 

Horace, 16, 62, 71, 75, 89, 90, 91, 
116, 118, 133, 144, 145, 149, 151, 
155 

Horne 153 
Hoss, 49, 100 
Howe, 73 
Hubbard, 95, 145 
Hugo, 28, 38, 166 
Humboldt, 87, 207 
Hume, 113, 131 
Hunt, 16, 74, 148 
Hunter, 130 
Hutcheson, 89 

Imperili, Cardinal, 147 
Ingalls, 145 
Ingersoll, 155 
Irving, 79, 97, 123 

Jackson, 150, 157, 158, 180 

Jacobi, 56, 209 

Jameson, 63 

Jay, 208 

Jayne, 191 

Jefferson, 155, 191 

Jerrold, 30, 92 

Johnson, 12, 37, 42, 43, 64, 70, 75, 
77, 80, 84, 86, 98, 101, 123, 130, 
146, 163, 166, 177, 189, 198, 202, 
203, 206 


Jones, 81, 164, 174 
Jonson, 15, 79 
Jortin, 80 

Joubert, 28, 47, 113, 168, 169 
Jurold, 148 
Justinian, 120 
Juvenal, 91, 137 

Keats, 132 
Keble, 108 
Khayyam, 118, 124 
Kincaid, 86 
Kingsley, 46, 48 
Kneil, 160 
Koran, The, 33, 165 
Kossuth, 54 

Laboulaye, 148 

La Bruyere, 66, 72, 130, 181, 200 
L’Estrange, 42, 93 
La Fontaine, 66, 69, 90, 149, 152, 
172, 182, 211 

La Rochefoucauld, 24, 35, 87, 91, 
98, 117, 147, 161, 163 
Lafayette, 159 
Lamartine, 125 
Landon, 93, 135 
Landor, 119, 123 
Lang, 20 
Langford, 21, 22 
Larcom, 123 
Lathrop, 133 
Lavater, 42, 63, 75, 171 
Lawson, 12 
Leighton, 111 
Lessing, 76 
Lewes, 80 
Libbes, 188 
Lichtenberg, 20 
Lincoln, 45, 49, 56, 97 
Lipton, 190 
Livy, 106, 200 
Lloyd-George, 159 
Locke, 88, 91, 200 
Longfellow, 13, 16, 24, 29, 44, 79, 
82, 91, 118, 133, 137, 138, 139, 
151, 1-54, 166, 179, 210, 211 


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INDEX BY AUTHORS 


Lowell, 27, 29, 30, 44, 52, 74, 78, 
110, 137, 138, 149, 154, 191, 200, 
211 

Lubbock, 32 
Lucan, 118 
Lucretius, 166 
Luther, 57 
Lyly, 101, 164 

Macdonald, 21, 48, 56, 69, 74, 76, 
79, 101, 142, 172, 187, 193, 201 
Machiavelli, 106 
Mackay, 118 
Maga, 177 
Magoon, 166, 170 
Mahomet, 148 
Malesherbes, 197 
Malone, 143 

Mann, 27, 52, 53, 81, 84, 172, 202 

Marcellinus, 200, 203 

Markham, 152 

Marston, 37 

Martial, 24 

Mason, 15, 109 

Massey, 121, 143 

Massieu, 76 

Massinger, 36, 109 

McCall, 46 

McCune, 167 

McKinley, 156 

Menander, 42, 197 

Mencius, 78, 202 

1VT PTPl PT /1-s 

Meredith, 14, 45, 79, 178, 205, 209 

Middleton, 101 

Mill, 142 

Miller, 95, 192 

Milnes, 94, 166 

Milton, 13, 118, 153, 161, 175, 178, 
209 

Mirabeau, 101 
Mitchell, 14 
Moir, 183 
Montagu, 168 

Montaigne, 31, 109, 141, 200 
Montesquieu, 92, 182 
Montgomery, 109, 166, 191 
Montluc, 26 


Moore, 108 
More, 58, 126, 171 
Morris, 45 
Morton, 178 
Muller, 161, 202 
Mulock, 82 
Munger, 59 

Napoleon, 55, 165 
Nelson, 172 
Newton, 11 
Niebiehr, 35 
Nietzsche, 197 
Norris, 89 
Norton, 28, 178 
Nott, 88 
Novalis, 99 

Oppenheim, 91 
O’Rell, 191 

O’Reilly, 84, 106, 197 
Orrery, 66 
Osgood, 210 
Ossoli, 19 
Otway, 99 

Ovid, 25, 31, 35, 38, 84, 139, 143, 
145, 149, 151, 159, 164, 182 

Paine, 48 
Paley, 85, 86 
Palmer, 92 

Parker, 48, 80, 82, 120 
Parkhurst, 58, 185 
Pascal, 23, 79, 119, 200 
Patmore, 133 
Patrick, 161 
Peabody, 54 
Pearley, 206 
Peloubet, 68 
Penn, 51, 110, 119 
Periander, 114, 205, 208 
Pericles, 15 
Peterborough, 111 
Petit-Senn, 38, 54, 92, 100 
Petrarch, 104 
Phaedrus, 149, 184 
Phelps, 33 
Philemon, 118 


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Phillips, 52, 119 
Piatt, 80 
Pindar, 116 
Pitpay, 66 
Pittacus, 62 
Planters, 62 

Plato, 43, 138, 142, 177, 201, 206, 
208 

Plautus, 38, 71, 204 
Pliny, 73, 194 
Plummer, 154 
Plutarch, 36, 68, 69, 93 
Pope, 11, 26, 50, 62, 77, 88, 91, 99, 
107, 132, 133 
.Porter, 31, 54, 93, 139 
Prentice, 70, 123 
Prior, 45 
Proctor, 206 

Quails, 14 

Quarles, 73, 111 

Quintilian, 15, 16, 84, 134, 204 

Rabelais, 106 
Racine, 106 
Raleigh, 100 
Rambler, 64, 193, 194 
Randolph, 53 
Reade, 85 
Regnard, 35 
Revaiol, 23 
Reynolds, 112, 115 
Richardson, 99 

Richter, 39, 63, 66, 95, 97, 134, 153, 
169, 173, 197 
Robertson, 47, 53, 59 
Roche, 46 
Rochester, 11 
Rogers, 134 

Roosevelt, 156, 158, 180, 182 
Roscommon, 19 
Rossetti, 164 

Rousseau, 77, 113, 120, 148, 197 

Roux, 70, 119 

Rowe, 63, 81, 187 

Rufus, 84 

Rumford, 33, 34 


Ruskin, 16, 31, 45, 46, 53, 82, 110, 
139, 153, 207, 212 
Ruth, 165 

Saadi, 73, 141 
Sabin, 141 
Sala, 96 
Sallust, 67 
Sand, 63, 205 
Sangster, 13, 125 
Savage, 61 

Schiller, 106, 110, 140, 141, 161 

Schopenhauer, 60 

Schurz, 156, 159 

Scott, 35, 50, 95, 146, 182, 197 

SpokPi* 7n 

Seneca, 13, 27, 28, 35, 37, 66, 74, 
76, 77, 79, 80, 91, 97, 99, 118, 
125, 129, 130, 146, 175, 176, 177, 
187, 189, 196, 197, 198 
Sevigne, de, 76 
Shaftesbury, 38, 201 
Shakespeare, 11, 13, 26, 27, 30, 35, 
37, 39, 69, 70, 79, 95, 96, 99, 101, 

105, 107, 116, 121, 122, 127, 132, 

134, 136, 142, 143, 146, 151, 153, 

155, 159, 165, 182, 183, 187, 188, 

193, 194, 196, 202, 203, 205 
Sharp, 87 

Shaw, 13, j63, 138, 162, 169, 179, 
182, 209 

Sheridan, 44, 184 
Sherwood, 157 

Sidney, 23, 37, 52, 72, 94, 153, 160, 
205 

Sigourney, 54, 86 
Simmons, 115, 172 
Simms, 120, 167, 168 
Skinner, 155 

Smiles, 19, 45, 58, 93, 112, 113, 122, 
131, 168, 169, 172, 175, 179, 186, 
207 

Smith, 20, 23, 38, 58, 71, 81, 93, 
130 

Smollett, 23 
Socrates, 68, 180 
Solon, 141 
Somerville, 91 


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INDEX BY AUTHORS 


Sophocles, 118, 122, 196, 198 
South, 74, 81, 194 
Southey, 72 
Spencer, 55 

Spurgeon, 73, 87, 109, 207 

St. Augustine, 44, 57, 84, 87, 109 

St. Bernard, 109 

St. Jerome, 209 

St. Just, 177 

Stael, de, 62, 123, 197 

Stanley, 147 

Steele, 30 

Stelzle, 157 

Stephens, 56 

Sterling, 54 

Sterne, 24, 32, 61, 64, 122, 196 

Stevenson, 89, 107, 129 

Stobaues, 69 

Stoddart, 206, 210 

Story, 157 

Suetonius, 85 

Swain, 88 

Swedenborg, 27 

Swetchine, 28, 64, 166 

Swift, 97, 130 

Swinburne, 187 

Syms, 151 

Syrus, 13, 61, 67, 69, 71, 85, 116, 
117, 125, 143, 145, 149, 151 

Taber, 48 

Tacitus, 25, 37, 200 
Talfourd, 185 

Taylor, 60, 70, 72, 73, 75, 78, 87, 
147, 166, 183,' 186 
Tegner, 118 
Temple, 22, 69 

Tennyson, 58, 125, 136, 137, 164, 
181 

Terence, 23, 85, 113, 128 
Tertullian, 153 
Thackeray, 25, 30, 69, 148 
Thomas a Kempis, 26, 45, 83, 153, 
175, 196 

Thomson, 23, 33, 137, 161, 175 
Thoreau, 68, 110, 197 
Tillotson, 88, 148 
Todd, 207 


Tolstoi, 56 
Trumbull, 48 
Tully, 65 
Tupper, 18 
Turgot, 60 

Udale, 143 

Vo jlp CO 

Van Dyke, 54, 136, 209 
Vaughn, 127 

Vauvenargues, 80, 82, 124, 151, 209 
Vinet, 28 

Virgil, 146, 151, 157, 180, 183 
Voltaire, 21, 56, 131, 143, 209 
Von Winter, 62 

Wallace, 183 
Wanamaker, 190 
Washington, 67, 99, 173, 206‘ 
Waterman, 29 
Watts, 114 
Wayland, 201 

Webster, 46, 52, 55, 113, 119, 156, 
197 

Wellington, 179 
Wendte, 184 
Wesley, 33 

Whately, 59, 113, 128, 200 
Whipple, 32 
White, 68 

Whittier, 16, 47, 56, 194 

Wilcox, 89, 138, 152 

Willard, 128 

Willis, 16, 131 

Willitts, 31, 32 

Wilson, 47, 59, 81, 107, 157 

Winter, 82 

Witherspoon, 168 

Wolton, 176 

Wordsworth, 19, 28, 56, 68, 122, 134, 
178 

Wotton, 102 
Wynne, 92 

Yoruba, 61 

Young, 11, 13, 14, 49, 51, 60, 78, 
201 

Zimmerman, 85 


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